Narva

[ nahr-vuh ]

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noun

a city in NE Estonia: Swedish defeat of Russians 1700.

Narva

/ ˈ�Բ��ə /

noun

a port in Estonia on the Narva River near the Gulf of Finland: developed around a Danish fortress in the 13th century; textile centre. Pop: 66 712 (2007 est)

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Narva is separated from Russia by a river with the same name.

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Some 96% of people in Narva are mother-tongue Russian speakers.

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Estonia worries a confident Vladimir Putin might use the big ethnic Russian community in and around Narva as an excuse to invade.

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Would the US, or even France, Italy or the UK, risk going to war with nuclear power Russia over Narva, a small part of tiny Estonia, on the eastern fringe of Nato?

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When you travel to windswept Narva, in northern Estonia, you see why the country feels so exposed.

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