إستونيا

(تم التحويل من Estonia)

إستونيا Estonia ( /ɛˈstniə/;[7][8] الإستونية: [Eesti] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) [ˈeːsti])، رسمياً جمهورية إستونيا (الإستونية: [Eesti Vabariik] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help))، هي بلد في منطقة البلطيق بشمال أوروپا. يحدها من الشمال خليج فنلندا، ومن الغرب بحر البلطيق، ومن الجنوب لاتڤيا (343 كم)، ومن الشرق بحيرة پيپوس وروسيا (338.6 كم).[9] عبر بحر البلطيق تقع السويد في الغرب وفنلندا في الشمال. تتألف أراضي إستونيا من البر الرئيسي وأكثر من 1500 جزيرة صغيرة وكبيرة في بحر البلطيق، ويشغل البر مساحة 45227 كم²، وتتأثر البلاد بالمناخ القاري الرطب. The territory of Estonia consists of the mainland, the larger islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, and over 2,200 other islands and islets on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea,[10] covering a total area of 45,339 square kilometres (17,505 sq mi). The capital city Tallinn and Tartu are the two largest urban areas of the country. The Estonian language is the indigenous and the official language of Estonia; it is the first language of the majority of its population, as well as the world's second most spoken Finnic language.

جمهورية إستونيا

Eesti Vabariik  (إستونية)
علم إستونيا
العلم
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الدرع
النشيد: 
Mu isamaa, mu õnn ja rõõm
(English: "My fatherland, my happiness and joy")
موقع  إستونيا  (dark green) – on the European continent  (green & dark grey) – in the European Union  (green)  —  [Legend]
موقع  إستونيا  (dark green)

– on the European continent  (green & dark grey)
– in the European Union  (green)  —  [Legend]

العاصمة
و أكبر مدينة
تالين
59°25′N 24°45′E / 59.417°N 24.750°E / 59.417; 24.750
Official languageEstonian
Ethnic groups (2023)
الدين
(2021[1])
صفة المواطنEstonian
الحكومةUnitary parliamentary republic
• President
Alar Karis
Kaja Kallas
التشريعRiigikogu
Independence 
from Russia and Germany
23–24 February 1918
• Joined the League of Nations
22 September 1921
1940–1991
20 August 1991
1 May 2004
المساحة
• الإجمالية
45,339 km2 (17,505 sq mi) (129thd)
• الماء (%)
4.6
التعداد
• تقدير 2023
زيادة محايدة 1,365,884[2]
• إحصاء 2021
1,331,824[3]
• الكثافة
30.6/km2 (79.3/sq mi) (148th)
ن.م.إ. (ق.ش.م.)تقدير 2023 
• الإجمالي
$61.757 billion[4] (113th)
• للفرد
$46,385 [4] (40th)
ن.م.إ.  (الإسمي)تقدير 2023 
• الإجمالي
$41.55 billion[4] (102th)
• للفرد
$31,207[4] (37th)
جيني (2021) 30.6[5]
medium
م.ت.ب. (2021) 0.890[6]
very high · 31st
العملةEuro () (EUR)
التوقيتUTC+02:00 (EET)
• الصيفي (التوقيت الصيفي)
UTC+03:00 (EEST)
جانب السواقةright
مفتاح الهاتف+372
النطاق العلوي للإنترنت.ee
  1. ^ Estonia regained its de facto independence in 1991. Throughout the 1940–1941 and 1944–1991 Soviet occupation, Estonia's de jure state continuity was preserved by diplomatic representatives and the government-in-exile.

The land of what is now modern Estonia has been inhabited by Homo sapiens since at least 9,000 BC. The medieval indigenous population of Estonia was one of the last pagan civilisations in Europe to adopt Christianity following the Papal-sanctioned Livonian Crusade in the 13th century.[11] After centuries of successive rule by the Teutonic Order, Denmark, Sweden, and the Russian Empire, a distinct Estonian national identity began to emerge in the mid-19th century. This culminated in the 24 February 1918 Estonian Declaration of Independence from the then warring Russian and German Empires. Democratic throughout most of the interwar period, Estonia declared neutrality at the outbreak of World War II, but the country was repeatedly contested, invaded and occupied, first by the Soviet Union in 1940, then by Nazi Germany in 1941, and was ultimately reoccupied in 1944 by, and annexed into, the USSR as an administrative subunit (Estonian SSR). Throughout the 1944–1991 Soviet occupation,[12] Estonia's de jure state continuity was preserved by diplomatic representatives and the government-in-exile. Following the bloodless Estonian "Singing Revolution" of 1988–1990, the nation's de facto independence from the Soviet Union was restored on 20 August 1991.

إستونيا هي جمهورية برلمانية ديمقراطية تنقسم إلى خمسة عشر مقاطعة، عاصمتها وأكبر مدنها تالين. بعدد سكان يبلغ 1.3 مليون نسمة، تعتبر واحدة من أقل دول الاتحاد الأوروپي منطقة اليورو، الناتو ومنطقة تشنگن إكتظاظاً بالسكان. الإستونيون هم شعب فنلندي، واللغة الرسمية هي الإستونية، وهي من اللغات الفنلندية الأوگرية شديدة القرب بالفنلندية واللغات السامية، وتختلف بشكل كبير عن المجرية.

كبلد متطور يتمتع باقتصاد متقدم عالي الدخل[13] ومعايير معيشة مترفعة، تحتل إستونية ترتيب متقدم على [[قائمة البلدان حسب مؤشر التنمية البشرية|مؤشر التنمية البشرية] (31 من 191)،[14] sovereign state of Estonia is a democratic unitary parliamentary republic, administratively subdivided into 15 maakond (counties). With a population of just about 1.4 million, it is one of the least populous members of the European Union, the Eurozone, the OECD, the Schengen Area, and NATO. Estonia has consistently ranked highly in international rankings for quality of life,[15] education,[16] press freedom, digitalisation of public services[17][18] and the prevalence of technology companies.[19]

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أصل التسمية

إحدى النظريات هي أن الاسم الحديث لإستونيا نشأ من Aesti التي وصفها المؤرخ الروماني تاسيتوس في جرمانيا له (حوالي 98 م).[20]

من ناحية أخرى، الملاحم الإسكندنافية القديمة تشير إلى الأرض ودعا إستلاند، على مقربة من والألمانية الدانمركية والهولندية إستلاند السويدية والنرويجية، الأجل للبلد. النسخ القديمة اللاتينية في وقت مبكر وغيرها من الاسم هي إستيا وهيستيا. [بحاجة لمصدر]

إستونيا كان مشترك الهجاء الإنجليزية البديل قبل الاستقلال.[21][22]


التاريخ

قبل التاريخ وعصر الڤايكنج

 
Bronze Age stone-cist graves in north Estonia

Human settlement in Estonia became possible 13,000–11,000 years ago, when the ice from the last glacial era melted. The oldest known settlement in Estonia is the Pulli settlement, on the banks of Pärnu river in southwest Estonia. According to radiocarbon dating, it was settled around 11,000 years ago.[23]

The earliest human habitation during the Mesolithic period is connected to the Kunda culture. At that time the country was covered with forests, and people lived in semi-nomadic communities near bodies of water. Subsistence activities consisted of hunting, gathering and fishing.[24] Around 4900 BC, ceramics appear of the neolithic period, known as Narva culture.[25] Starting from around 3200 BC the Corded Ware culture appeared; this included new activities like primitive agriculture and animal husbandry.[26]

 
Iron Age artefacts of a hoard from Kumna[27]

The Bronze Age started around 1800 BC, and saw the establishment of the first hill fort settlements.[28] A transition from hunter-fisher subsistence to single-farm-based settlement started around 1000 BC, and was complete by the beginning of the Iron Age around 500 BC.[23][29] The large amount of bronze objects indicate the existence of active communication with Scandinavian and Germanic tribes.[30]

The middle Iron Age produced threats appearing from different directions. Several Scandinavian sagas referred to major confrontations with Estonians, notably when in the early 7th century "Estonian Vikings" defeated and killed Ingvar, the King of Swedes.[31][بحاجة لمصادر إضافية] Similar threats appeared to the east, where East Slavic principalities were expanding westward. Around 1030 the troops of Kievan Rus led by Yaroslav the Wise defeated Estonians and established a fort in modern-day Tartu. This foothold may have lasted until ca 1061 when an Estonian tribe, the Sosols, destroyed it.[32][33][34][35] Around the 11th century, the Scandinavian Viking era around the Baltic Sea was succeeded by the Baltic Viking era, with seaborne raids by Curonians and by Estonians from the island of Saaremaa, known as Oeselians. In 1187 Estonians (Oeselians), Curonians or/and Karelians sacked Sigtuna, which was a major city of Sweden at the time.[36][37]

وقعت إستونيا على مر التاريخ تحت سيطرة الدانماركيين، والسويديين، والألمان والروس حتى عام 1918 حيث تم إعلان الاستقلال. اعترفت الأخيرة بإستونيا عام 1920 وأُعلن قيام جمهورية برلمانية و تأميم أراضي النُبلاء في نفس العام. انضمت دول البلطيق الثلاث اللى عصبة الأمم المتحدة عام 1921. عاشت استونيا في الفترة 1921 إلى 1940 فترة سياسية غير مستقرة أهم أحداثها تشكيل حكومة فاشية برئاسة قسطنطين باتس (Päts) عام 1934. اتفاق هتلر-ستالين عام 1939 أعطى الضوء الأخضر للاتحاد السوفياتي باحتلال جمهوريات البلطيق و من ضمنها استونيا، الذي تم في عام 1940 أثناء الحرب العالمية الثانية (1939-1945) بدون أي سابق انذار. بعد نشوب الحرب بين ألمانيا والاتحاد السوفيتي، قامت الأولى بإحتلال جمهوريات البلطيق عام 1941، إلى أن أعاد الجيش الأحمر إحتلالهم و إعادتهم تحت سيطرة الاتحاد السوفيتي.

بقي تاريخ البلاد جزء من التاريخ السوفيتي في السنوات المقبلة حتى الأعوام 1988 - 1990، عندما بدأ الاتحاد السوفيتي بالانهيار وتزايد الأصوات المطالبة باستقلال البلاد. وأعلنت إستونيا استقلالها عام 1990، واعترف مجلس السوفيت الأعلى في العام التالي بالجمهورية الجديدة. انضمت إستونيا إلى الأمم المتحدة عام 1992 وإلى الاتحاد الاوروبي عام 2004.

عصر الڤايكنگ

 
A stylised viking ship on the Estonian 1 Kroon from 1934


إستونيا الدنماركية

 
علم دنماركي يسقط من السماء في معركة ليندانيس 1219.


العصور الوسطى

 
ليڤونيا العصور الوسطى.



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إستونيا السويدية

 
العاصمة الإستونية تالين في النصف الأول من القرن 17.
 
الأراضي الإستونية كجزء من الامبراطورية السويدية (1561–1721)


الصحوة الوطنية والامبراطورية الروسية

 
Estonia is famous for its countless manors (here: Sangaste manor, built in 1874–1881) which used to house the ruling German landowning upper classes.


National Awakening

The Estonian national awakening began in the 1850s as several leading figures started promoting an Estonian national identity among the general populace. Widespread farm buyouts by Estonians and the resulting rapidly growing class of land-owning farmers provided the economic basis for the formation of this new "Estonian identity". In 1857 Johann Voldemar Jannsen started publishing the first Estonian language daily newspaper and began popularising the denomination of oneself as eestlane (Estonian).[38] Schoolmaster Carl Robert Jakobson and clergyman Jakob Hurt became leading figures in a national movement, encouraging Estonian farmers to take pride in their ethnic Estonian identity.[39] The first nationwide movements formed, such as a campaign to establish the Estonian language Alexander School, the founding of the Society of Estonian Literati and the Estonian Students' Society, and the first national song festival, held in 1869 in Tartu.[40][41][42] Linguistic reforms helped to develop the Estonian language.[43] The national epic Kalevipoeg was published in 1862, and 1870 saw the first performances of Estonian theatre.[44][45] In 1878 a major split happened in the national movement. The moderate wing led by Hurt focused on development of culture and Estonian education, while the radical wing led by Jakobson started demanding increased political and economical rights.[41]

At the end of the 19th century, Russification began, as the central government initiated various administrative and cultural measures to tie Baltic governorates more closely to the empire.[40] The Russian language replaced German and Estonian in most secondary schools and universities, and many social and cultural activities in local languages were suppressed.[45] In the late 1890s, there was a new surge of nationalism with the rise of prominent figures like Jaan Tõnisson and Konstantin Päts. In the early 20th century, Estonians started taking over control of local governments in towns from Germans.[46]

During the 1905 Revolution, the first legal Estonian political parties were founded. An Estonian national congress was convened and demanded the unification of Estonian areas into a single autonomous territory and an end to Russification. The unrest was accompanied by both peaceful political demonstrations and violent riots with looting in the commercial district of Tallinn and in a number of wealthy landowners' manors in the Estonian countryside. The Tsarist government responded with a brutal crackdown; some 500 people were executed and hundreds more jailed or deported to Siberia.[47][48]

Independence

 
The tricolour flags of Estonia on display during the public announcement of the Declaration of Independence of Estonia in Pärnu on 23 February 1918. One of the very first images of the independent republic.

In 1917, after the February Revolution, the governorate of Estonia was expanded by the Russian Provisional Government to include Estonian-speaking areas of Livonia and was granted autonomy, enabling the formation of the Estonian Provincial Assembly.[49] The Bolsheviks seized power in Estonia in November 1917, and the Provincial Assembly was disbanded. However, the Provincial Assembly established the Salvation Committee, and during the short interlude between Russian retreat and German arrival, the committee declared independence on 24 February 1918, and formed the Estonian Provisional Government. German occupation immediately followed, but after their defeat in World War I, the Germans were forced to hand over power back to the Provisional Government on 19 November 1918.[50][51]

On 28 November 1918 Soviet Russia invaded, starting the Estonian War of Independence.[52] The Red Army came within 30 km of Tallinn, but in January 1919, the Estonian Army, led by Johan Laidoner, went on a counter-offensive, ejecting Bolshevik forces from Estonia within a few months. Renewed Soviet attacks failed, and in spring, the Estonian army, in co-operation with White Russian forces, advanced into Russia and Latvia.[53][54] In June 1919, Estonia defeated the German Landeswehr which had attempted to dominate Latvia, restoring power to the government of Kārlis Ulmanis there. After the collapse of the White Russian forces, the Red Army launched a major offensive against Narva in late 1919, but failed to achieve a breakthrough. On 2 February 1920, the Tartu Peace Treaty was signed by Estonia and Soviet Russia, with the latter pledging to permanently give up all sovereign claims to Estonia.[53][55]

In April 1919, the Estonian Constituent Assembly was elected. The Constituent Assembly passed a sweeping land reform expropriating large estates, and adopted a new highly liberal constitution establishing Estonia as a parliamentary democracy.[56][57] In 1924, the Soviet Union organised a communist coup attempt, which quickly failed.[58] Estonia's cultural-autonomy law for ethnic minorities, adopted in 1925, is widely recognised as one of the most liberal in the world at that time.[59] The Great Depression put heavy pressure on Estonia's political system, and in 1933, the right-wing Vaps movement spearheaded a constitutional reform establishing a strong presidency.[60][61] On 12 March 1934 the acting head of state, Konstantin Päts, declared a state of emergency, under the pretext that the Vaps movement had been planning a coup. Päts, together with general Johan Laidoner and Kaarel Eenpalu, established an authoritarian régime during the "era of silence", when the parliament did not reconvene and the newly established Patriotic League became the only legal political movement.[62] A new constitution was adopted in a referendum, and elections were held in 1938. Both pro-government and opposition candidates were allowed to participate, but only as independents.[63] The Päts régime was relatively benign compared to other authoritarian régimes in interwar Europe, and the régime never used violence against political opponents.[64]

Estonia joined the League of Nations in 1921.[65] Attempts to establish a larger alliance together with Finland, Poland, and Latvia failed, with only a mutual-defence pact being signed with Latvia in 1923, and later was followed up with the Baltic Entente of 1934.[66][67] In the 1930s, Estonia also engaged in secret military co-operation with Finland.[68] Non-aggression pacts were signed with the Soviet Union in 1932, and with Germany in 1939.[65][69] In 1939, Estonia declared neutrality, but this proved futile in World War II.[70]


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الحرب العالمية الثانية

 
الجيش الأحمر troops moving into military bases in Estonia in October 1939, after the Soviet Union had forced Estonia to sign the Bases Treaty.

A week before the outbreak of World War II, on 23 August 1939, Nazi Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. In the pact's secret protocol Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland were divided between USSR and Germany into "spheres of influence", with Estonia assigned to the Soviet "sphere".[71] On 24 September 1939, the Soviet Union demanded that Estonia sign a treaty of "mutual assistance" which would allow the Soviet Union to establish military bases in the country. The Estonian government felt that it had no choice but to comply, and the Soviet–Estonian Mutual Assistance Treaty was signed on 28 September 1939.[72] On 14 June, the Soviet Union instituted a full naval and air blockade on Estonia. On the same day, the airliner Kaleva was shot down by the Soviet Air Force. On 16 June, the USSR presented an ultimatum demanding completely free passage of the Red Army into Estonia and the establishment of a pro-Soviet government. Feeling that resistance was hopeless, the Estonian government complied and, on the next day, the whole country was occupied.[73][74] On 6 August 1940, Estonia was annexed by the Soviet Union as the Estonian SSR.[75]

 
The capital Tallinn after bombing by the Soviet Air Force during the war on the Eastern Front in March 1944

The USSR established a repressive wartime regime in occupied Estonia. Many of the country's high-ranking civil and military officials, intelligentsia and industrialists were arrested. Soviet repressions culminated on 14 June 1941 with mass deportation of around 11,000 people to Russia.[76][77] When Operation Barbarossa (accompanied by Estonian guerrilla soldiers called "Forest Brothers"[78]) began against the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941 in the form of the "Summer War" (الإستونية: [Suvesõda] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)), around 34,000 young Estonian men were forcibly drafted into the Red Army, fewer than 30% of whom survived the war. Soviet destruction battalions initiated a scorched earth policy. Political prisoners who could not be evacuated were executed by the NKVD.[79][80] Many Estonians went into the forest, starting an anti-Soviet guerrilla campaign. In July, German Wehrmacht reached south Estonia. The USSR evacuated Tallinn in late August with massive losses, and capture of the Estonian islands was completed by German forces in October.[81]

Initially, many Estonians were hopeful that Germany would help to restore Estonia's independence, but this soon proved to be in vain. Only a puppet collaborationist administration was established, and occupied Estonia was merged into Reichskommissariat Ostland, with its economy being fully subjugated to German military needs.[82] About a thousand Estonian Jews who had not managed to leave were almost all quickly killed in 1941. Numerous forced labour camps were established where thousands of Estonians, foreign Jews, Romani, and Soviet prisoners of war perished.[83] German occupation authorities started recruiting men into small volunteer units but, as these efforts provided meagre results and military situation worsened, forced conscription was instituted in 1943, eventually leading to formation of the Estonian Waffen-SS division.[84] Thousands of Estonians who did not want to fight in the German military secretly escaped to Finland, where many volunteered to fight together with Finns against Soviets.[85]

 
A ship with Estonian Swedes fleeing west from the Soviet invasion (1944)

The Red Army reached the Estonian borders again in early 1944, but its advance into Estonia was stopped in heavy fighting near Narva for six months by German forces, including numerous Estonian units.[86] In March, the Soviet Air Force carried out heavy bombing raids against Tallinn and other Estonian towns.[87] In July, the Soviets started a major offensive from the south, forcing the Germans to abandon mainland Estonia in September and the Estonian islands in November.[86] As German forces were retreating from Tallinn, the last pre-war prime minister Jüri Uluots appointed a government headed by Otto Tief in an unsuccessful attempt to restore Estonia's independence.[88] Tens of thousands of people, including most of the Estonian Swedes, fled westwards to avoid the new Soviet occupation.[89]

Overall, Estonia lost about 25% of its population through deaths, deportations and evacuations in World War II.[90] Estonia also suffered some irrevocable territorial losses, as the Soviet Union transferred border areas comprising about 5% of Estonian pre-war territory from the Estonian SSR to the Russian SFSR.[91]

Second Soviet occupation

 
Estonian partisans, the "Forest Brothers".

Thousands of Estonians opposing the second Soviet occupation joined a guerrilla movement known as the "Forest Brothers". The armed resistance was heaviest in the first few years after the war, but Soviet authorities gradually wore it down through attrition, and resistance effectively ceased to exist in the mid-1950s.[92] The Soviets initiated a policy of collectivisation, but as farmers remained opposed to it a campaign of terror was unleashed. In March 1949 about 20,000 Estonians were deported to Siberia. Collectivization was fully completed soon afterwards.[76][93]

The Russian-dominated occupation authorities under the Soviet Union began Russification, with hundreds of thousands of ethnic Russians and other "Soviet people" being induced to settle in occupied Estonia, in a process which eventually threatened to turn indigenous Estonians into a minority in their own native land.[94] In 1945 Estonians formed 97% of the population, but by 1989 their share of the population had fallen to 62%.[95] Occupying authorities carried out campaigns of ethnic cleansing, mass deportation of indigenous populations, and mass colonization by Russian settlers which led to Estonia losing 3% of its native population.[96] By March 1949, 60,000 people were deported from Estonia and 50,000 from Latvia to the gulag system in Siberia, where death rates were 30%. The occupying regime established an Estonian Communist Party, where Russians were the majority in party membership.[97] Economically, heavy industry was strongly prioritised, but this did not improve the well-being of the local population, and caused massive environmental damage through pollution.[98] Living standards under the Soviet occupation kept falling further behind nearby independent Finland.[94] The country was heavily militarised, with closed military areas covering 2% of territory.[99] Islands and most of the coastal areas were turned into a restricted border zone which required a special permit for entry.[100] Estonia was quite closed until the second half of the 1960s, when gradually Estonians began to covertly watch Finnish television in the northern parts of the country, thus getting a better picture of the way of life behind the Iron Curtain.[101]

The majority of Western countries considered the annexation of Estonia by the Soviet Union illegal.[102] Legal continuity of the Estonian state was preserved through the government-in-exile and the Estonian diplomatic representatives which Western governments continued to recognise.[103][104]

Independence restored

 
In the Baltic Way on 23 August 1989, two million people formed a human chain across three countries in a mass demonstration against the Soviet occupation.

The introduction of perestroika by the central government of the Soviet Union in 1987 made open political activity possible again in Estonia, which triggered an independence restoration process later known as Laulev revolutsioon ("Singing revolution").[105] The environmental Fosforiidisõda ("Phosphorite war") campaign became the first major protest movement against the central government.[106] In 1988, new political movements appeared, such as the Popular Front of Estonia, which came to represent the moderate wing in the independence movement, and the more radical Estonian National Independence Party, which was the first non-communist party in the Soviet Union and demanded full restoration of independence.[107] On 16 November 1988, after the first non-rigged multi-candidate elections in half a century, the parliament of Soviet-controlled Estonia issued the Sovereignty Declaration, asserting the primacy of Estonian laws. Over the next two years, many other administrative parts (or "republics") of the USSR followed the Estonian example, issuing similar declarations.[108][109] On 23 August 1989, about 2 million Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians participated in a mass demonstration, forming the Baltic Way human chain across the three countries.[110] In February 1990, elections were held to form the Congress of Estonia.[111] In March 1991, a referendum was held where 78.4% of voters supported full independence. During the coup attempt in Moscow, Estonia declared restoration of independence on 20 August 1991.[112]

Soviet authorities recognised Estonian independence on 6 September 1991, and on 17 September Estonia was admitted into the United Nations.[113] The last units of the Russian army left Estonia in 1994.[114]

In 1992 radical economic reforms were launched for switching over to a market economy, including privatisation and currency reform.[115] Estonia has been a member of the WTO since 13 November 1999.[116]

Since regaining independence in 1991, Estonian foreign policy has been aligned with other Western democracies, and in 2004 Estonia joined both the European Union and NATO.[117] On 9 December 2010, Estonia became a member of OECD.[118] On 1 January 2011, Estonia joined the eurozone and adopted the euro, the single currency of EU.[119] Estonia was a member of the UN Security Council 2020–2021.[120]

 
خط الحصار والغزو العسكري السوڤيتي لإستونيا ولاتڤيا عام 1940


الاحتلال الألماني


إستونيا السوڤيتية

 
Estonian Swedes fleeing the Soviet occupation to Sweden (1944)
 
Plaque memorializing members of the Estonian government who were killed during the Soviet occupation, on Stenbock House in Tallinn
 
Estonia joined the European Union in 2004 and signed the Lisbon Treaty in 2007.


ما بعد الاستقلال



خط زمني

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الجغرافيا

 
الساحل الشمالي لإستونيا يتكون بشكل رئيسي من منحدرات الحجر الجيري.


تقع استونيا بين خطوط العرض 57.3 و 59.5 و خطوط الطول 21.5 و 28.1 على الساحل الشرقي لبحر البلطيق، في شمال شرق أوروبا. معدل علو الارتفاعات يبلغ 50 متر. أعلى جبل هو سور مونامغي (Suur Munamägi) و يبلغ 318 متر. الغابات تُشكل 47% من مساحة البلاد، اللتي تُعد بجانب الحجر الكلسي أهم موارد البلاد. تحتضن استونيا أكثر من 1400 بحيرة، معظمها صغيرة الحجم و أكبرها بحيرة هي بايبسي (Peipsi) بمساحة قدرها 3555 كم مربع. طول ساحل البلاد يزاهي ال 3794 كم (مع الجزر). يبلغ عدد الجزر الاستونية حوالي 1500 جزيرة.



Climate

Estonia is situated in the temperate climate zone, and in the transition zone between maritime and continental climate, characterized by warm summers and fairly mild winters. Primary local differences are caused by the Baltic Sea, which warms the coastal areas in winter, and cools them in the spring.[123][124] Average temperatures range from 17.8 °C (64.0 °F) in July, the warmest month, to −3.8 °C (25.2 °F) in February, the coldest month, with the annual average being 6.4 °C (43.5 °F).[125] The highest recorded temperature is 35.6 °C (96.1 °F) from 1992, and the lowest is −43.5 °C (−46.3 °F) from 1940.[126] The annual average precipitation is 662 millimetres (26.1 in),[127] with the daily record being 148 millimetres (5.8 in).[128] Snow cover varies significantly on different years.[124] Prevailing winds are westerly, southwesterly, and southerly, with average wind speed being 3–5 m/s inland and 5–7 m/s on coast.[124] The average monthly sunshine duration ranges from 290 hours in August, to 21 hours in December.[129]

Biodiversity

 
The barn swallow (H. r. rustica) is the national bird of Estonia.

Due to varied climatic and soil conditions, and plethora of sea and internal waters, Estonia is one of the most biodiverse regions among the similar sized territories at the same latitude.[124] Many species extinct in most other European countries can be still found in Estonia.[130]

Recorded species include 64 mammals, 11 amphibians, and 5 reptiles.[123] Large mammals present in Estonia include the grey wolf, lynx, brown bear, red fox, badger, wild boar, moose, roe deer, beaver, otter, grey seal, and ringed seal. The critically endangered European mink has been successfully reintroduced to the island of Hiiumaa, and the rare Siberian flying squirrel is present in east Estonia.[130] The red deer, once extirpated, has also been successfully reintroduced.[131] In the beginning of the 21st century, an isolated population of European jackals was confirmed in Western Estonia, much further north than their earlier known range. The number of jackals has grown quickly in coastal areas of Estonia and can be found in Matsalu National Park.[132][133] Introduced mammals include sika deer, fallow deer, raccoon dog, muskrat, and American mink.[123]

Over 300 bird species have been found in Estonia, including the white-tailed eagle, lesser spotted eagle, golden eagle, western capercaillie, black and white stork, numerous species of owls, waders, geese and many others.[134] The barn swallow is the national bird of Estonia.[135]

Phytogeographically, Estonia is shared between the Central European and Eastern European provinces of the Circumboreal Region within the Boreal Kingdom. According to the WWF, the territory of Estonia belongs to the ecoregion of Sarmatic mixed forests.[136] Estonia has a rich composition of floristic groups, with estimated 6000 (3461 identified) fungi, 3000 (2500 identified) algae and cyanobacteria, 850 (786 identified) lichens, and 600 (507 identified) bryophytes. Forests cover approximately half of the country. 87 native and over 500 introduced tree and bush species have been identified, with most prevalent tree species being pine (41%), birch (28%), and spruce (23%).[123] Since 1969, the cornflower (Centaurea cyanus) has been the national flower of Estonia.[137]

Protected areas cover 19.4% of Estonian land and 23% of its total area together with territorial sea. Overall there are 3,883 protected natural objects, including 6 national parks, 231 nature conservation areas, and 154 landscape reserves.[138]

السياسة

Estonia is a unitary parliamentary republic. The unicameral parliament Riigikogu serves as the legislative and the government as the executive.[139]

Estonian parliament Riigikogu is elected by citizens over 18 years of age for a four-year term by proportional representation, and has 101 members. Riigikogu's responsibilities include approval and preservation of the national government, passing legal acts, passing the state budget, and conducting parliamentary supervision. On proposal of the president Riigikogu appoints the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the chairman of the board of the Bank of Estonia, the Auditor General, the Legal Chancellor, and the Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Forces.[140][141]

The Government of Estonia is formed by the Prime Minister of Estonia at recommendation of the President, and approved by the Riigikogu. The government, headed by the Prime Minister, carries out domestic and foreign policy. Ministers head ministries and represent its interests in the government. Sometimes ministers with no associated ministry are appointed, known as ministers without portfolio.[142] Estonia has been ruled by coalition governments because no party has been able to obtain an absolute majority in the parliament.[139]

The head of the state is the President who has a primarily representative and ceremonial role. There are no referendums on the election of the president, but the president is elected by the Riigikogu, or by a special electoral college.[143] The President proclaims the laws passed in the Riigikogu, and has right to refuse proclamation and return law in question for a new debate and decision. If Riigikogu passes the law unamended, then the President has right to propose to the Supreme Court to declare the law unconstitutional. The President also represents the country in international relations.[139][144]

The Constitution of Estonia also provides possibility for direct democracy through referendum, although since adoption of the constitution in 1992 the only referendum has been the referendum on European Union membership in 2003.[145]

Estonia has pursued the development of the e-government, with 99 percent of the public services being available on the web 24 hours a day.[146] In 2005 Estonia became the first country in the world to introduce nationwide binding Internet voting in local elections of 2005.[147] In 2023 parliamentary elections 51% of the total votes were cast over the internet, becoming the first time when more than half of votes were cast online.[148]

In the most recent parliamentary elections of 2023, six parties gained seats at Riigikogu. The head of the Reform Party, Kaja Kallas, formed the government together with Estonia 200 and Social Democratic Party, while Conservative People's Party, Centre Party and Isamaa became the opposition.[149][150]

القانون

 
Building of the Supreme Court of Estonia in Tartu

The Constitution of Estonia is the fundamental law, establishing the constitutional order based on five principles: human dignity, democracy, rule of law, social state, and the Estonian identity.[151] Estonia has a civil law legal system based on the Germanic legal model.[152] The court system has a three-level structure. The first instance are county courts which handle all criminal and civil cases, and administrative courts which hear complaints about government and local officials, and other public disputes. The second instance are district courts which handle appeals about the first instance decisions.[153] The Supreme Court is the court of cassation, conducts constitutional review, and has 19 members.[154] The judiciary is independent, judges are appointed for life, and can be removed from office only when convicted of a crime.[155] The justice system has been rated among the most efficient in the European Union by the EU Justice Scoreboard.[156] As of June 2023, gay registered partners and married couples have the right to adopt. Gay couples will gain the right to marriage in Estonia in 2024. Estonia is the first of the former Soviet republics to legalize same-sex marriage.[157][158]

العلاقات الخارجية

Estonia was a member of the League of Nations from 22 September 1921, and became a member of the United Nations on 17 September 1991.[159][160] Since restoration of independence Estonia has pursued close relations with the Western countries, and has been member of NATO and the European Union since 2004.[160] In 2007, Estonia joined the Schengen Area, and in 2011 the Eurozone.[160] The European Union Agency for large-scale IT systems is based in Tallinn, and started operations at the end of 2012.[161] Estonia held the Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the second half of 2017.[162]

Since the early 1990s, Estonia has been involved in active trilateral Baltic states co-operation with Latvia and Lithuania, and Nordic-Baltic co-operation with the Nordic countries. Estonia is a member of the interparliamentary Baltic Assembly, the intergovernmental Baltic Council of Ministers and the Council of the Baltic Sea States.[163] Estonia has built close relationship with the Nordic countries, especially Finland and Sweden, and is a member of Nordic-Baltic Eight (NB-8).[160][164] Joint Nordic-Baltic projects include the education programme Nordplus[165] and mobility programmes for business and industry[166] and for public administration.[167] The Nordic Council of Ministers has an office in Tallinn with a subsidiaries in Tartu and Narva.[168][169] The Baltic states are members of Nordic Investment Bank, European Union's Nordic Battle Group, and in 2011 were invited to co-operate with Nordic Defence Cooperation in selected activities.[170][171][172][173]

The beginning of the attempt to redefine Estonia as "Nordic" was seen in December 1999, when then Estonian foreign minister (and President of Estonia from 2006 until 2016) Toomas Hendrik Ilves delivered a speech entitled "Estonia as a Nordic Country" to the Swedish Institute for International Affairs,[174] with the potential political calculation behind it being the wish to distinguish Estonia from its more slowly progressing southern neighbours, which could have postponed early participation in European Union enlargement.[175] Andres Kasekamp argued in 2005, that relevance of identity discussions in Baltic states decreased with their entrance into EU and NATO together, but predicted, that in the future, attractiveness of Nordic identity in Baltic states will grow and eventually, five Nordic states plus three Baltic states will become a single unit.[175]

Other Estonian international organisation memberships include OECD, OSCE, WTO, IMF, the Council of the Baltic Sea States,[160][176][177] and on 7 June 2019, was elected a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council for a two-year term that began on 1 January 2020.[178]

Since the Soviet era, the relations with Russia remain generally cold, even though practical co-operation has taken place in between.[179] Since 24 February 2022, the relations with Russia have further deteriorated when Russia made its invasion on Ukraine. Estonia has very actively supported Ukraine during the war, providing highest support relative to its gross domestic product.[180][181]

Military

ملف:Baltic Battalion Soldiers, Trident Juncture 15 (22200204329).jpg
Estonian soldiers during a NATO exercise in 2015

The Estonian Defence Forces consist of land forces, navy, and air force. The current national military service is compulsory for healthy men between ages of 18 and 28, with conscripts serving 8- or 11-month tours of duty, depending on their education and position provided by the Defence Forces.[182] The peacetime size of the Estonian Defence Forces is about 6,000 persons, with half of those being conscripts. The planned wartime size of the Defence Forces is 60,000 personnel, including 21,000 personnel in high readiness reserve.[183] Since 2015 the Estonian defence budget has been over 2% of GDP, fulfilling its NATO defence spending obligation.[184]

The Estonian Defence League is a voluntary national defence organisation under management of Ministry of Defence. It is organised based on military principles, has its own military equipment, and provides various different military training for its members, including in guerilla tactics. The Defence League has 17,000 members, with additional 11,000 volunteers in its affiliated organisations.[185][186]

Estonia co-operates with Latvia and Lithuania in several trilateral Baltic defence co-operation initiatives. As part of Baltic Air Surveillance Network (BALTNET) the three countries manage the Baltic airspace control center, Baltic Battalion (BALTBAT) has participated in the NATO Response Force, and a joint military educational institution Baltic Defence College is located in Tartu.[187]

Estonia joined NATO in 2004. NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence was established in Tallinn in 2008.[188] In response to Russian war in Ukraine, since 2017 a NATO Enhanced Forward Presence battalion battle group has been based in Tapa Army Base.[189] Also part of NATO Baltic Air Policing deployment has been based in Ämari Air Base since 2014.[190] In European Union Estonia participates in Nordic Battlegroup and Permanent Structured Cooperation.[191][192]

Since 1995 Estonia has participated in numerous international security and peacekeeping missions, including: Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Kosovo, and Mali.[193] The peak strength of Estonian deployment in Afghanistan was 289 soldiers in 2009.[194] 11 Estonian soldiers have been killed in missions of Afghanistan and Iraq.[195]

التقسيمات الإدارية

خطأ: الصورة غير صحيحة أو غير موجودة


Estonia is a unitary country with a single-tier local government system. Local affairs are managed autonomously by local governments. Since administrative reform in 2017, there are in total 79 local governments, including 15 towns and 64 rural municipalities. All municipalities have equal legal status and form part of a maakond (county), which is an administrative subunit of the state.[196] Representative body of local authorities is municipal council, elected at general direct elections for a four-year term. The council appoints local government. For towns, the head of the local goverment is linnapea (mayor) and vallavanem for parishes. For additional decentralization the local authorities may form municipal districts with limited authority, currently those have been formed in Tallinn and Hiiumaa.[197]

Separately from administrative units, there are also settlement units: village, small borough, borough, and town. Generally, villages have less than 300, small boroughs have between 300 and 1000, boroughs and towns have over 1000 inhabitants.[197]

السياسة

إستونيا هي دولة دستورية ديمقراطية. رئيس الجمهورية هو أعلى منصب سياسي يُنتخب من برلمان الدولة (Riigikogu) ،ذو المجلس الأحادي، كل خمس سنوات. الحكومة ، اللتي تتشكل من 14 وزير، هي الذراع التنفيذي للرئيس. الحكومة تُعين من الرئيس بعد موافقة البرلمان عليها. البرلمان يتكون من 101 نائب، اللذين ينتخبوا كل أربع سنوات بشكل مباشر من الشعب. المحكمة القضائية العليا هي المحكمة الوطنية (Riigikohus)، اللتي تتكون بدورها من 17 قاضي يرأسهم رئيس القضاة اللذي يعين من البرلمان.

 
Wehrmacht armoured personnel carriers in front of the Tartu University (February 1944).


البرلمان

 
مقر البرلمان الإستوني في قلعة تومپي.


الحكومة

 
بيت ستنبوك، مقر حكومة إستونيا على تلة تومپي.


القانون


العلاقات الخارجية

 
سفارة إستونيا في واشنطن دي سي.
 
وزراء خارجية دول الشمال والبلطيق في هلسينكي، 2011.



العسكرية

 
An Estonian Patria Pasi XA-180 in Afghanistan
 
Estonian troops in opening ceremony of NATO exercise Steadfast Jazz 2013.


الاقتصاد

 
Estonia is part of the Schengen Area, the EU single market and Eurozone (dark blue).
 
The central business district of Tallinn
 
Business quarter in Tartu


بعد إنتهاء الحقبة الشيوعية بالبلاد حولت إستونيا نظامها الاقتصادي تدريجياً، آخذة اقتصاديات الدول الاسكندنافية كمثل أعلى لها، اللتي تمتاز بقلة البيروقراطية ، شفافية أنظمة الدولة و اتصالات حديثة. الاقتصاد الإستوني أصبح ينمو بسرعة و ثقة أكثر بعد دخول البلاد بالاتحاد الاوروبي عام 2004. أهم الصناعات هي الغذائية و الكهربائية. أيضاً صيد الأسماك و صناعة الأثاث لهم دور مهم بدفع عجلة النمو و زيادة الصادرات. أهم الشركاء التجاريين هم الدول الاسكندنافية و خاصة فنلندا.

إستونيا كانت إحدى الدول الرائدة لإدخال نظام ضريبي فريد من نوعه (عام 1994) يقضي باستقتطاع 26% من دخل الفرد كضريبة دخل بغض النظر عن مهنته، لاحقاً تم خفضها إلى 24%.

الطرق البرية و الملاحة البحرية هي أهم سبل المواصلات في البلاد. تُستعمل السكك الحديدية بشكل رئيسي لنقل البضائع. الموانئ البحرية الكبيرة تتواجد في العاصمة تالين و بارنو. يخترق الطريق السريع شارع البلطيق (Via Baltica) من جنوب البلاد إلى شمالها.



التنمية التاريخية

 
نمو ن.م.إ. الحقيقي في إستونيا، 2002–2012


الموارد

 
محطة إيستي للطاقة هي أكبر محطة طاقة تدار بالسجيل الزيتي في العالم.[198]


الصناعة والبيئة

 
مزرعة روسته للرياح في إبراشية هانيلا.



التجارة

 
مخطط يوضح صادرات المنتجات الإستونية في تصنيفات من 28 لون.
إستونيا (2014[199]) الصادرات الواردات
  السويد 18% 11%
  فنلندا 14% 15%
  لاتفيا 10% 9%
  روسيا 9% 6%
  لتوانيا 5% 8%
  ألمانيا 5% 10%
  نرويج 4% -%
  الولايات المتحدة 4% -%
  هولندا 3% 4%
  الصين -% 4%
 
تعداد سكان إستونيا 1970–2009



الديموغرافيا

مواطنو إستونيا حسب العرقية (2012)[200]
إستونيون
  
69.8%
روس
  
24.8%
أوكرانيون
  
2.0%
بلاروسيون
  
1.1%
فنلنديون
  
0.8%
آخرون
  
1.6%


حسب احصائيات عام 2002 فإن 67.9% من سكان البلاد هم استونيون، يليهم الروس بنسبة 25.6%، ثم الأوكرانيين (2.1%)، الروسيون البيض (1.2%) و الفنلنديون (0.9%). الجالية الروسية تتركز حول العاصمة تالين و في شمال شرق البلاد.


التمدن


الديانات

المسيحية اللوثرية (75%)، تليها الأرثوذوكسية الروسية (14%),اليهودية (أقل من 1%).


الدين تعداد 2000 [202] تعداد 2011[203]
العدد % العدد %
مسيحيون أرثوذكس 143,554 12.80 176,773 16.15
مسيحيون لوثريون 152,237 13.57 108,513 9.91
معمدانيون 6,009 0.54 4,507 0.41
روم كاثوليك 5,745 0.51 4,501 0.41
Jehovah's Witnesses 3,823 0.34 3,938 0.36
Old Believers 2,515 0.22 2,605 0.24
Christian Free Congregations 223 0.02 2,189 0.20
Earth Believers 1,058 0.09 1,925 0.18
Taara Believers 1,047 0.10
Pentecostals 2,648 0.24 1,855 0.17
مسلمون 1,387 0.12 1,508 0.14
Adventists 1,561 0.14 1,194 0.11
بوذيون 622 0.06 1,145 0.10
Methodists 1,455 0.13 1,098 0.10
ديانات أخرى 4,995 0.45 8,074 0.74
بلا ديانة 450,458 40.16 592,588 54.14
لم يفصح 343,292 30.61 181,104 16.55
الإجمالي1 1,121,582 100.00 1,094,564 100.00

1السكان، والأشخاص أكبر من 15 والمسنون.


المجتمع


اللغات

 
الحروف الأربعة المميزة في الأبجدية الإستونية.

اللغة الاستونية، لغة البلاد الرسمية، لا تتبع اللغات البلطيقية و انما مجموعة اللغات الفنلندية-المجرية. الروسية تُستعمل بين أبناء الجالية الروسية في البلاد.

التعليم والعلوم

 
جامعة تارتو هي واحدة من أقدم جامعات شمال أوروپا وتحتل أعلى الترتيبات في إستونيا.
 
ESTCube-1 هو أول ساتل إستوني.


الثقافة

KUMU Art Museum of Estonia


الأدب

 
A painting depicting a scene from the national epic Kalevipoeg written by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald.



الإعلام


الموسيقى

 
Kerli Kõiv performing in Tallinn in 2008.
 
A moment before the opening of the 25th Estonian Song Festival (2009) at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds.

العمارة


العطلات العامة

قالب:Holidays of Estonia

المطبخ

A. Le Coq Premium
Saku Originaal
Two of the most popular beer brands in Estonia.



الرياضة

 
Estonian delegation in Vancouver, 2010.



الترتيبات الدولية

المؤشر الترتيب الدول المشاركة
Freedom House Internet Freedom 2012 1st 47
Global Gender Gap Report Global Gender Gap Index 2013 59th 136
Index of Economic Freedom 2014 11th 157
Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index 2011–2012 11th 187
State of World Liberty Index 2006 1st 159
Human Development Index 2013[204] 33rd 169
Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 28th 176
Networked Readiness Index 2014 21st 133
Ease of Doing Business Index 2014 22nd 158
State of The World's Children's Index 2012[205] 10th 165
State of The World's Women's Index 2012 18th 165
World Freedom Index 2014[206] 8th 165
Legatum Prosperity Index 2011 33rd 110
EF English Proficiency Index 2013 4th 60
Programme for International Student Assessment 2012 (Maths) 11th 65
Programme for International Student Assessment 2012 (Science) 6th 65
Programme for International Student Assessment 2012 (Reading) 11th 65

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قراءات إضافية

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