Petseri County
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| Petserimaa
Petseri County
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| Capital (and largest city) |
 Petseri |
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| Official languages | Estonian1 | |||||
| Demonym | Estonian | |||||
| Government | County government | |||||
| - | County Governor | - (Maavanem) | ||||
| - | Mayor of the capital | - (Linnapea) | ||||
| Establishment | 1920 | |||||
| - | First Soviet occupation | 1940-1941 | ||||
| - | German occupation | 1941-1944 | ||||
| - | Second Soviet occupation | 1944-1991 | ||||
| - | Russian occupation | 1991 to date | ||||
| Area | ||||||
| - | Total | 1,582 km² 500 sq mi |
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| Population | ||||||
| - | Jan. 01, 2008 estimate | c.30,000 | ||||
| - | 1934 census | 60,438[1] | ||||
| Currency | Estonian kroon (EEK) |
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| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) | |||||
| - | Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) | ||||
| Internet TLD | .ee | |||||
| Calling code | +372 | |||||
| 1 | Seto and Russian was spoken along with Estonian. | |||||
Petseri County (Estonian: Petserimaa) was – and, according to the Constitution of Estonia[2], still is – one of the eleven counties of the Republic of Estonia. Since 1944, however, most of the county has been administered as part of Pskov Oblast, first by the Russian SFSR and then, from 1991, by Russia.[3]
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[edit] History
During the last year of World War I, from February to December 1918, the county's capital, Pechory, was occupied by German forces. The town was then captured by Estonian forces on March 29, 1919 as part of the Estonian War of Independence. The Treaty of Tartu subsequently assigned Pechory and its surrounding territory, the Setomaa region, to Estonia. Pechory was renamed Petseri and the area became Petseri County.
During World War II, Petseri County was occupied by the German army between August 1941 and August 11, 1944, then by Soviet forces during their advance toward Nazi Germany. Petseri and most of Petseri County has remained under Soviet and then Russian control since then.
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[edit] Notes and references
- ^ Aivar Kriiska, Andres Tvauri, Anti Selart: Estonian History Atlas, p.110. ISBN 998520915X (2008).
- ^ Article 2: All the territories of Estonia are indivisible and part of a unitary state.
- ^ See Territorial changes in the Baltic states during and after World War II.
