Bronze Age stone-cist graves in north Estonia (Source)
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Kuressaare Castle in Saaremaa dates back to the 1380s (Source)
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"Academia Dorpatensis" (now University of Tartu) was founded in 1632 by King Gustavus as the second university in the kingdom of Sweden. After the king's death it became known as "Academia Gustaviana". (Source)
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Carl Robert Jakobson played a key role in the Estonian national awakening. (Source)
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The Red Army troops moving into military bases in Estonia in October 1939, after the Soviet Union had forced Estonia to sign the Bases Treaty. (Source)
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The capital Tallinn after bombing by the Soviet Air Force during the war on the Eastern Front in March 1944 (Source)
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A ship with Estonian Swedes fleeing west from the Soviet invasion (1944) (Source)
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Estonian partisans, the "Forest Brothers". (Source)
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In the Baltic Way on 23 August 1989, two million people formed a human chain across three countries in a mass demonstration against the Soviet occupation. (Source)
The oil shale industry in Estonia is one of the most developed in the world.[292] In 2012, oil shale supplied 70% of Estonia's total primary energy and accounted for 4% of Estonia's gross domestic product.[293][294] (Source)
A Russian Old Believer village with a church on Piirissaar island (Source)
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Ruhnu stave church, built in 1644, is the oldest surviving wooden building in Estonia (Source)
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Distribution of Finnic languages in Northern Europe (Source)
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The University of Tartu is one of the oldest universities in Northern Europe and the highest-ranked university in Estonia. According to the Top Universities website, the University of Tartu ranks 285th in the QS Global World Ranking.[377] (Source)
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ESTCube-1 is the first Estonian satellite. (Source)
