Kopli

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Kopli is a suburb in the north west part of the city of Tallinn in Estonia. Kopli's former German name until 1918 was Ziegelskoppel.

[edit] Cemetery in Kopli

Kopli was the former location of the largest lutheran Baltic German cemetery in Tallinn, known as Kopli cemetery (in Estonian: Kopli kalmistu; in German: Friedhof von Ziegelskoppel) which was founded around 1774. The cemetery was flattended and destroyed over a 170 years later around 1950-1951, during the second occupation of the baltic states, by the Soviet authorities who used the area of Kopli as a base for the soviet military. The former cemetery is now a public park.

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