"dagai" - 1 õppematerjal

Inglise keele referaat 'Hiiumaa'

Its largest town is Kärdla. Name Hiiumaa is the main island of Hiiu County, called Hiiumaa or Hiiu maakond in Estonian. The Swedish and German name of the island is Dagö (day island),Dagø in Danish -- a calque of its old Finnish name Päivänsalo (day island); compare Ösel (Yösalo ­ night island) for Saaremaa. In modern Finnish it is called Hiidenmaa, literally hiisi's land. In Old Gutnish it was Dagai (day isthmus), from which the local North Germanic name "Daë" is derived. History Archaeological evidence of the first human settlement in Hiiumaa dates to as early as the 4th century BC. The first documented record of the island of Dageida was made by contemporary chroniclers in 1228, at the time when Hiiumaa, along with the rest of Estonia, had been conquered by Germanic Crusaders