Eestlased vs ristisõdijad
and tgeir descendants
Public holidays: Some national holidays: 23 June: Victory Day the Battle of Võnnu in the
Estonian War of independence; 24 June St. John's Day; 2 February anniversary of the Tartu
Peace Treaty; 14 March Mother Tongue Day; May second Sunday Mothers' Day; 2
November All Souls' Day; 14 February Valentine's Day. Some annual events: The Tartu Ski
Marathon, Jazzkaar, Old Town Festival; Grandma-Granpa Days, Tallinn Rock Summer, Viru
Säru, The Visual Anthropology; The International Organ Music Festival; The White Lady
Festival
National customs: The first all-Estonian Song Festival took place in Tartu ib 1869 and sice then
the Song Festivals have become a national tradition, being held every 4-5 years; the Singing
Revolution is a commonly used name for events between 1987 and 1990.
Emblems: THE FLAG was originally the flag of the Estonian Students' Society, consecrated in