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Tar·tu

 (tär′to͞o)
A city of southeast Estonia southeast of Tallinn. Founded in 1030, it was a member of the Hanseatic League and became part of Russia in 1704.
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Tartu

(Russian ˈtartu)
n
(Placename) a city in SE Estonia: successively under Polish, Swedish, and Russian rule; university (1632). Pop: 95 000 (2005 est). Former name (11th century until 1918): Yurev German name: Dorpat
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Tar•tu

(ˈtɑr tu)

n.
a city in SE Estonia. 115,000.
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Noun1.Tartu - a city of southeastern Estonia that was a member of the Hanseatic League
Hanseatic League - a commercial and defensive confederation of free cities in northern Germany and surrounding areas; formed in 1241 and most influential in the 14th century when it included over 100 towns and functioned as an independent political power; the last official assembly was held in 1669
Esthonia, Estonia, Republic of Estonia - a republic in northeastern Europe on the Baltic Sea
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On the origin of the Estonian words mesilassulem 'swarm of bees' and kosal 'light hive for catching swarming bees'/Uber die herkunft der estnischen Worter (mesilas)sulem '(bienen)schwarm' und kosal 'waldbienenstock'/[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]
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Lappo's file at the Vitautas Great University Archives the time when he worked in Tartu, at the University of Tartu, is marked 1905-1919 (State Central Archive of Lithuania (Lietuvos Centrinio valstybes archyvo), 631-3-378, 6back), although in 1918-1919 he already worked at the University of Voronez (Moskalenko 1969:7).
Research and teaching of history at the University of Tartu at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century
Archaeological investigation of the southern part of the Riia suburb of Tartu in 2001-2002.--AVE, 2002, 153-163.
New insights on the changes of townscape in 14th-century Tartu/Uusi teadmisi Tartu linnaruumi arengust 14. sajandil
and Pajuste-Kuul, K., 'Tartu Ulikooli aastaaruanne 2010' (Annual Report of the University of Tartu in 2010), 2010, [Online] available at http://issuu.com/ tartuuniversity/docs/aastaaruanne_2010, accessed on March 10, 2012.
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