Revala
Sign in to saveRevala (also Rävälä, , by Henry of Livonia Revele, by Danish Census Book Revælæ) was an Ancient Estonian county. It was located in northern Estonia, by the Gulf of Finland and corresponded roughly to the present territory of Harju County. It was conquered by the Danish in 1219 during the Livonian Crusade. It also contained the town of Lindanise, nowadays known as Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.
Key facts
- Former Subdivision.native_name
- Revala
- Former Subdivision.conventional_long_name
- Revalia
- Former Subdivision.common_name
- Revala
- Former Subdivision.subdivision
- County
- Former Subdivision.nation
- Ancient Estonia
- Former Subdivision.year_start
- 9th century
- Former Subdivision.year_end
- 1224
- Former Subdivision.s1
- Danish Estonia
- Former Subdivision.government_type
- Council of Elders
- Former Subdivision.image_map
- Ancient_Estonian_counties.png
- Former Subdivision.image_map_caption
- Revala within the Ancient Estonia
- Former Subdivision.capital
- Lindanisa
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- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1224-00-00
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Revala (also Rävälä, , by Henry of Livonia Revele, by Danish Census Book Revælæ) was an Ancient Estonian county. It was located in northern Estonia, by the Gulf of Finland and corresponded roughly to the present territory of Harju County. It was conquered by the Danish in 1219 during the Livonian Crusade. It also contained the town of Lindanise, nowadays known as Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.
The Icelandic ''Njal's saga—composed after 1270, but describing events between the years 960 and 1020—mentions an event that occurred somewhere in the area of what is now Tallinn and calls the place Rafala. The toponym, Rafala, was probably a derivation of Rävala, or Revala'', or some other variant of the locally used Estonian-language name for the adjacent medieval Estonian county.