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Saaremaa

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Saa·re·maa also Sa·re·ma  (sär-mä)
An island of western Estonia in the Baltic Sea at the mouth of the Gulf of Riga. Long strategically important, it has been controlled by the Teutonic Knights and by Denmark, Sweden, Livonia, Estonia, and Russia.
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It's so remote that Estonian mobile networks dominate on the beaches, a reminder that the island of Saaremaa is so near that you can see it on clear days.
Coasting to a different beat by Birzulis, Philip / The Baltic Times (Riga, Latvia)
The type locality for Strosipherus was indicated by Pander as Leo (present name Loo), Saaremaa Island, Estonia.
Late Silurian--early Devonian tessellated heterostracan Oniscolepis ... by Marss, Tiiu; Karatajute-Talimaa, Valentina / Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences
The best comparable example comes, perhaps, from the Estonian bigger islands of Saaremaa, Hiiumaa and Muhu and the neighbouring western Estonian mainland, which became 'empty' of cemeteries in the early Roman Iron Age (Lang 2007, 90-93).
A new treatment on settlement archaeology in SW Finland by Lang, Valter / Estonian Journal of Archaeology
 
 
 
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