Tamsalu
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Tamsalu is a town in Tapa Parish, Lääne-Viru County, Estonia.
The town has a station on the
Tallinn-Tartu railway
.
As of December 31, 2021, the town had a population of 2415.
History
The settlement was first mentioned in 1512, but remained an insignificant village until 1876, when the Tallinn-Tartu railway was built. The settlement became a town in 1996. Before the administrative reform in 2017, the town was the administrative center of the former Tamsalu Parish.
Demographics
| Ethnicity | 1934[2][note 1] | 1959[3]
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1970[4]
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1979[5]
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1989[5]
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2000[6]
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2011[7] | 2021[1] | ||||||||
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| amount | % | amount | % | amount | % | amount | % | amount | % | amount | % | amount | % | amount | % | |
| Estonians | 468 | 93.6 | 1355 | 86.6 | 1935 | 85.8 | 2056 | 76.9 | 2143 | 72.0 | 2078 | 79.5 | 1850 | 82.7 | 1991 | 82.4 |
| Russians | 28 | 5.60 | - | - | 172 | 7.62 | 356 | 13.3 | 523 | 17.6 | 320 | 12.2 | 264 | 11.8 | 303 | 12.5 |
| Ukrainians | - | - | - | - | 23 | 1.02 | 55 | 2.06 | 125 | 4.20 | - | - | 33 | 1.48 | 43 | 1.78 |
| Belarusians | - | - | - | - | 8 | 0.35 | 41 | 1.53 | 38 | 1.28 | - | - | 30 | 1.34 | 22 | 0.91 |
| Finns | - | - | - | - | 82 | 3.63 | 98 | 3.67 | 73 | 2.45 | - | - | 21 | 0.94 | 21 | 0.87 |
| Jews | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0.04 | 1 | 0.04 | 3 | 0.10 | - | - | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Latvians | 2 | 0.40 | - | - | 7 | 0.31 | 10 | 0.37 | 2 | 0.07 | - | - | 3 | 0.13 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Germans | 1 | 0.20 | - | - | - | - | 29 | 1.08 | 9 | 0.30 | - | - | 5 | 0.22 | 4 | 0.17 |
| Tatars | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0.04 | 4 | 0.13 | - | - | 1 | 0.04 | 3 | 0.12 |
| Poles | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 0.22 | 4 | 0.13 | - | - | 2 | 0.09 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Lithuanians | - | - | - | - | 8 | 0.35 | 9 | 0.34 | 13 | 0.44 | - | - | 8 | 0.36 | 5 | 0.21 |
| unknown | 1 | 0.20 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 8 | 0.31 | 1 | 0.04 | 5 | 0.21 |
| other | 0 | 0.00 | 209 | 13.4 | 20 | 0.89 | 11 | 0.41 | 41 | 1.38 | 208 | 7.96 | 18 | 0.81 | 18 | 0.75 |
| Total | 500 | 100 | 1564 | 100 | 2256 | 100 | 2673 | 100 | 2978 | 100 | 2614 | 100 | 2236 | 100 | 2415 | 100 |
Notable people
- Estonian Minister of the Environment (April 9, 2015 – June 12, 2017), Member of the Estonian Parliament.
Gallery
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Tamsalu church -
Tamsalu House of Culture -
References
- ^ a b c "RL21429: RAHVASTIK RAHVUSE, SOO, VANUSERÜHMA JA ELUKOHA (HALDUSÜKSUS) JÄRGI, 31. DETSEMBER 2021". Estonian Statistical Database (in Estonian).
- hdl:10062/4438.
- ISBN 9985-820-22-3.
- ^ Население районов, городов и поселков городского типа Эстонской ССР : по данным Всесоюзной переписи населения на 15 января 1970 года (in Russian). Tallinn: Eesti NSV Statistika Keskvalitsus. 1972. p. 78.
- ^ ISBN 978-9949-71-932-7.
- ISBN 9985-74-167-6.
- ^ "RL0429: RAHVASTIK RAHVUSE, SOO, VANUSERÜHMA JA ELUKOHA JÄRGI, 31. DETSEMBER 2011". Estonian Statistical Database (in Estonian).
Notes
- ^ Tamsalu was split between Einmani and Nõmküla Parishes, relevant figures have been summed for convenience
External links
Media related to Tamsalu at Wikimedia Commons
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