Linnaka
Linnaka is a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County in western Estonia. Before the administrative reform in 2017, the village was in Leisi Parish. Karja church, dating from the Middle Ages, is located in Linnaka.Photo: RobertRSMN, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Hamlet with 22 residents
- Description: village in Saaremaa Rural Municipality, Saare County, Estonia
- Also known as: “Линака”
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 Karja and Aru.
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.
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. Aru is situated 3½ km northwest of Linnaka.
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 7 km north of Linnaka.
Linnaka
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Linnaka küla, Saaremaa Parish, Saare, Estonia, Baltic states, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
58.5142° or 58° 30′ 51″ northLongitude
22.72655° or 22° 43′ 36″ eastPopulation
22Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)Open location code
9GC4GP7G+MJOpenStreetMap ID
node 1973427761OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
8618075Wikidata ID
Q3451488
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Volapük—“Linnaka” goes by many names.
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