Estonia
the east and the Baltic German forces (the Baltische Landeswehr) to the south, resulting in the Tartu
Peace Treaty recognising Estonian independence in perpetuity.
• In 1939-1940, Estonia was occupied and (according to e.g. the USA, the EU, and the European Court
of Human Rights) illegally annexed by the Soviet Union as a result of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.
During the war Estonia was occupied b yNazi Germany in 1941, then reoccupied by the Soviet Union
in 1944. Estonia regained independence in 1991 after the collapse of the USSR and joined
the European Union in 2004.
Rivers, Lakes, Waterfalls
Estonia is a country of thousand of lakes. In the Estonian territory there are about
1200 natural lakes whose water area exceeds 1 ha. The largest of these is Lake
Peipsi, which is the fourth largest freshwater lake in Europe. Most of Estonia's lakes
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