Esitlus Pärnust.
Pärnu City
Themes
1. History
2. Attractions
3. About Pärnu
4. Notable Residents
5. Citizens of Honuor
6. Pictures of Pärnu
1. History
The people who chose to live at the river mouth thousands of years ago
stayed here permanently. It is known that in 1154 the Arabian traveller and
geographer Abu Abdallah Muhammed al-Idrisi serving the King of Sicily
mentioned a river named Bernu.
Embecke ("Emajõgi" in Estonian) is the same River Bernu referred to by al-
Idrisi and later renamed as the River Pärnu.
Pärnu's first period of prosperity was the time from the beginning of the 14th
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