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Estonia Photo Gallery
Photographs by Sisse Brimberg and Cotton Coulson/Keenpress

Photo: Sunset over Kiek in de Kok Tower, Tallinn, Estonia

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ights bathe Tallinn's famous Kiek in de Kok Tower, at left, in the city's Old Town. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, with its Russian onion domes, stands to the right. The nearby Cathedral of St. Mary the Virgin (Toomkirk) was built by the Danes after the Danish invasion of Estonia in the early 13th century. During long periods of occupation over eight centuries, "Estonians themselves were little more than serfs," according to Vesilind. "They enjoyed independence for 20 years between world wars. Now once more independent, this former republic of the U.S.S.R. on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea has joined both NATO and the European Union, and rejoined the European mainstream."

Read more about Estonia in "Up from the Ruins" in the November/December 2007 issue of National Geographic Traveler.

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