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Revell Family Study

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France

Revel is 25 minutes drive from the A61 motorway, an integral part of the French and European motorway network, and 50 minutes from the airport at Toulouse.

Revel in the Rhone Alps

Estonia

The city of Tallinn, formerly known as Reval is the capital and principal seaport of the Republic of Estonia.Tallinn, lies in the northeast corner of the Baltic Sea region, in Northern Europe. Estonia shares land borders with Latvia and Russia, and lies across the Baltic Sea from Finland and Sweden.

Tallinn Before Written Sources It is not easy to determine the beginning of Tallinn history. The location probably attracted attention as a suitable port area long before first written sources mention a settlement there, but all historians have is archaeological data. The first traces of settlement in the territory of today’s Tallinn come from the Härjapea river basin at Keldrimäe but those cannot be directly linked to the city. The early history of Tallinn begins from suburban Iru, where a castle together with a nearby settlement was built in the end of the first millennium. The castle was abandoned for unknown reasons in the end of the 11th century and Lindanise (Kolyvan in Russian sources) castle was built some time later on the today’s Toompea hill—this was basically the centre of the ancient Rävala county (hence the German name for Tallinn: Reval). The castle was most probably only to offer refuge in case of enemy attacks and included no permanent settlement in the 13th century. The trade route in the Gulf of Finland became more widely used during the 9th and 10th century and thereby increased the importance of the Tallinn port site. There might have been seasonal settlements of Scandinavian and Russian merchants at the location of today’s lower town in the beginning of the 2nd millennium but there is no clear evidence neit

Other sources state:

• After having founded their city and fortress, the Danes started to call it "Reval" because of the surrounding ancient province of Rävala. The name "Reval" was then taken over by the Germans and the Swedes and most of the world. The Russians changed it to "Revel", probably being easier to pronounce. About the Poles I have no idea; maybe they used "Revel", too. The Estonians have called the place "Tallinn" right from the beginning. The name is derived from the words "Taani linn" which means castle/town of the Danes. Sometimes you can even see the form "Tallin" - used by Russians at least during the Soviet occupation - and "Tallinna" which is the modern Finnish form (previously "Rääveli" was used in Finnish) and the form used by Estonians in the interwar period. Nowadays (since 1918/1945) in foreign languages, even German and Danish, the historical name "Reval" is rarely used and "Tallinn" is the most common form.
• Tallinn is the Estonian name. It means "the town of the Danes", since the town was founded when Estonia belonged to Denmark for a time in the Middle Ages. Reval is the German name, used by the Teutonic Order when they ruled Estonia, and also used by the German speaking population in Estonia which left the country in the 1930s and 1940s. I think the Danes used a similar name. When Estonia belonged to Sweden, the name Reval was used, but there were also some Swedish forms, like Räffle.
• Russian name was "Revel'". Source: Geography of the USSR, by Theodore Shabad, 1954
• The name "Reval" with its derivations like the Russian "Revel" was widely used before the first Estonian independence ~1219-1918 when the country was under Danish / German / Swedish / Russian domination. When Estonia gained independence, the Estonian form "Tallinn" or "Tallinna" became the official one and was gradually taken over to foreign languages as well. In Russian one "N" was dropped and the name became "Tallin".
• The city of Tallinn is the capital and principal seaport of the Republic of Estonia. It is located on Estonia's north coast, along the Baltic Sea. Before 1918, it was primarily known in English by its German name Reval. Other historical names are Koluvan, Lindanise, Lindanisa (Lindanäs), Revalia, Revel and Reveln. The origin of the name is unclear. It may have been derived from "talu linn", Estonian for "farming town". Alternately, it may have been derived from "Taani-linn", Estonian for "Danish town". Historically, the city has been attacked, sacked, razed and pillaged on numerous occasions. It was the centre of the medieval salt-trade on which it grew rich and prosperous.