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PLACE NAMES BOARD OF ESTONIA
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Summary
Summary of documents available in Estonian.
Place Names Act and other connected legal acts
See also the English translation of the Act.
Connected legal acts
Other reading
Place Names Board
Composition
Meetings of the Board
Working Group on the Names of Populated Places
Data on the changes in 2001
See the minutes of the Place Names Board meeting (18 October 2001).
Data on the changes in 2000
Applications to change the list of names (13 October 2000).
Data on the reform of 1998
Data on the reform of 1997
See also lists of place names.
Place names legislation 1997–2004
11 Dec. 1996. With later updates. See also the English translation of the same Act.
Connected legal acts
Documents of the Governmental Place Names Committee 1994–1996
- Recommendations on the standardization of farm (property) names (25 Febr. 1995)
- Summary of name-changes approved by the Committee (1994-1996)
In three parts. I. Recommended names of undersea features approved by the Committee. Columns: 1 - formerly used name, 2 - recommended name, 3 - location, 4 - date of the meeting. II. Place names from the island of Naissaar, as proposed by the Ministry of the Environment (6 July 1995). Columns: 1 - proposed name, 2 - approved name, 3 - location. III. Decisions on 15 April 1996 concerning 1) the names of some streams in Central Estonia, 2) the names of territorial water bodies bordering Estonia. Recommended Estonian names are: Läänemeri 'Baltic Sea', Liivi laht 'Gulf of Rīga', Kura kurk 'Straight of Irbe' [Latvian: Irbes jūras šaurums].
National standardization of place names in the 1930's