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Parnu

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location_on Parnu County, Estonia
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Parnu is the fourth largest city in Estonia. Located in southwestern Estonia on the coast of Parnu Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Livonia in the Baltic Sea. It is a popular summer time holiday resort with many lodges, eating places, and massive beaches. The Parnu River flows via the town and drains into the Gulf of Riga. The town is served through Pärnu Airport.Perona German: Alt-Pernau, Estonian: Vana-Parnu become founded by way of the bishop of Osel–Wiek 1251, suffered heavily underneath strain of the concurrent metropolis, and become ultimately destroyed 1600.

Another city, Embeke later German: Neu-Pernau, Estonian: Uus-Parnu was founded by way of the Livonian Order, who started out building an Ordensburg close by in 1265. The latter city, then regarded via the German call of Pernau, turned into a member of the Hanseatic League and an important ice-free harbor for Livonia. The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth took manipulate of city between 1560–1617; the Poles and Lithuanians fought the Swedes close by in 1609.

Sweden took control of the metropolis for the duration of the 16th-century Livonian War, but it became sooner or later taken by means of the Russian Empire inside the 1710 Capitulation of Estonia and Livonia and the 1721 Treaty of Nystad, following the Great Northern War. It belonged to Imperial Russian Governorate of Livonia then. The town is sometimes referred to as Pyarnu, an wrong reverse-transliteration from Russian.

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