Saaremaa County (Estonia)

Saaremaa maakond

Last modified: 2023-06-03 by zachary harden
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image by Ivan Sache , 23 January 2000

• The County
• Coat of Arms

• Clickable Map of Saaremaa

See also:

• Estonia
• Estonia - Subdivisions (Overview)
• Estonia - Subdivisions (Municipalities)
• Clickable Map of Estonia
• Kingdom of Torgu

Municipalities:

• [01] Kaarma vald
• [02] Karla vald (Kärla)
• [03] Kihelkonna vald
• [04] Kuressaare linn
• [05] Laimjala vald
• [06] Leisi vald
• [07] Lumanda vald (Lümanda)
• [08] Muhu vald
• [09] Mustjala vald
• [10] Orissaare vald
• [11] Pihtla vald
• [12] Poide vald (Pöide)
• [13] Ruhnu vald
• [14] Salme vald
• [15] Torgu vald
• [16] Valjala vald

Former Municipalities:

• Kuressaare vald

Other sites:

• Coat of Arms of Ruhnu vald

The County

Flag adopted: 26 September 1996. Ratio: 7:11. Capital: Kuressaare.
Ivan Sache , 23 January 2000

Saaremaa is the biggest Estonian island in the Baltic Sea. It was under the Teutonic Order in the Middle Ages and later under Denmark, and belonged to Sweden 1645-1721; in Swedish it is called ?sel. From 1721 it was Russian and after the first world war it became a part of independent Estonia.
There used to be a Swedish speaking minority on the island, but not much is left of it now. Most of the Swedish speaking Estonians fled to Sweden following the Soviet occupation in 1944 (or during the German occupation 1941-44).
Elias Granqvist, 21 May 2001

Coat of Arms

by Ivan Sache, 10 January 2000

From <www.saare.ee>: Coat of arms first time adopted on 5 February, 1937.
Erki Kurrikoff, 15 April 2001