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Litvina is a village in Setomaa Parish, Võru County in southeastern Estonia. Prior to the 2017 administrative reform of local governments, it was located in Värska Parish.

Key facts

Settlement.official_name
Litvina
Settlement.settlement_type
Village
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1
County
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Võru County
Settlement.subdivision_type2
Parish
Settlement.subdivision_name2
Setomaa Parish
Settlement.timezone
EET
Settlement.utc_offset
+2
Settlement.timezone_DST
EEST
Settlement.utc_offset_DST
+3

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Wikidata facts

Official name
Litvina
Country
Estonia
Population
17
Area
1.42
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native label
Litvina
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Litvina is a village in Setomaa Parish, Võru County in southeastern Estonia. Prior to the 2017 administrative reform of local governments, it was located in Värska Parish.

==Name== Litvina was attested in historical sources as Литвиново (Litvinovo) in 1585, Литвинова (Litvinova) in 1781, Litwinna in 1886, and Litvinna in 1904. The linguist Jaak Simm assumed that the village name is derived from the Russian patronymic Литвинов (Litvinov); the patronymic Литвиновъ (Litvinov″) was recorded in the 15th to 17th centuries, and the Russian surname Литвин (Litvin, also Литвинов, Litvinov) can refer to a Lithuanian, a person from Lithuania or the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, or a Belarusian. This is considered the most likely explanation for the place name by Jüri Truusmann and Anželika Šteingolde.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Litvina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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