Viira
Viira is a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County in western Estonia. Before the administrative reform in 2017, the village was in Leisi Parish.- Type: Hamlet with 29 residents
- Description: village in Saaremaa Rural Municipality, Saare County, Estonia
- Also known as: “Viira, Saaremaa Parish”, “Viiraküla”, and “Viyrakyula”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Karja Church and Angla windmill hill.
Karja Church
Church
Photo: MinuHiiumaa, CC BY-SA 3.0 ee.
Karja Church is a medieval Lutheran church located in the Linnaka village on Saaremaa island, Estonia. It is the rural church with the richest medieval stone sculpture decoration in all the Baltic states.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aru and Karja.
Aru
Hamlet
Photo: Appaches, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Aru is a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County, in western Estonia. Before the administrative reform in 2017, the village was in Leisi Parish.
Karja
Hamlet
Karja is a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County in western Estonia. Before the administrative reform in 2017, the village was in Leisi Parish. German philologist Kurt Treu was born in Karja. Karja is situated 3 km southwest of Viira.
Leisi Parish
Village
Photo: Yksikuitaja, CC BY-SA 3.0 ee.
Leisi Parish was a municipality in Saare County, Estonia. The parish did consist of one small borough Leisi and 53 villages. The municipality had a population of 2,137 and covered an area of 347.91 km². Leisi Parish is situated 5 km northwest of Viira.
Viira
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Viira küla, Saaremaa Parish, Saare, Estonia, Baltic states, Europe
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Latitude
58.53091° or 58° 31′ 51″ northLongitude
22.72743° or 22° 43′ 39″ eastPopulation
29Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)Open location code
9GC4GPJG+9XOpenStreetMap ID
node 1973425532OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
587621Wikidata ID
Q1934903
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Volapük—“Viira” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Վիիռա”
- Belarusian: “Війра (Саарэмаа)”
- Belarusian: “Війра”
- Chinese: “Viira”
- Dutch: “Viira”
- Estonian: “Viira küla”
- Estonian: “Viira”
- French: “Viira”
- German: “Viira”
- Low German: “Viira”
- Mainfränkisch: “Viira”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Viira (Saaremaa Kàu-khu)”
- Polish: “Viira”
- Russian: “Вийра”
- Spanish: “Viira”
- Volapük: “Viira”
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