Tartu (disambiguation)
Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia.
Tartu may also refer to:
Places:
- Tartu County, in which the city is located
- Tartu Parish, a rural municipality in Tartu County
- 35618 Tartu, an asteroid
Historical events:
- Siege of Tartu (1224), part of the Christian conquest of Estonia
- Treaty of Tartu (1920),
- Treaty of Tartu (Russian–Estonian) (February 1920) : peace treaty between the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic and newly independent Estonia
- Treaty of Tartu (Russian–Finnish) (October 1920) : peace treaty between the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic and newly independent Finland
- Battle of Tartu (1941), a World War II battle for the city
- Tartu Offensive (1944), a World War II offensive
In the military:
- Tartu Air Base or Raadi Airfield, a former air base northeast of the city of Tartu
- Jean-François Tartu (1751-1793), French naval officer
- French frigate Uranie (1788), renamed Tartu in honour of Jean-François Tartu
Schools in Tartu, Estonia:
- University of Tartu, the largest and highest-ranked university in Estonia
- Tartu Academy of Theology, a private university
- Estonian Aviation Academy, a public university known as Tartu Aviation College before 1996
- Tartu Art College, an upper secondary vocational art school
Other uses:
- Tartu College, a student residence in Toronto, Canada
- Tartu Cathedral, Tartu, Estonia
- Tartu Observatory, the largest astronomical observatory in Estonia
- Tartu Ülikool Korvpallimeeskond, an Estonian professional basketball club based in Tartu
- The Adventures of Tartu, a Second World War spy film reissued in the US under the title Tartu
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/12/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.