From the 13th century until 1918 (and briefly during the Nazi occupation of Estonia from 1941 to 1944), the city was known as Reval [Rewal in German]. Reval is located in the historical German region of Estland. Today, it is called Tallinn and is located in Estonia.
Reval was also a port of departure for some of those immigrating to the Volga German colonies in the 1760s.
Names
Tallinn, Estonia
Reval, Estland
Reval, Estonia
Rewal, Estonia
Surnames
Panorama of the Tallinn city center (2007).
Source: Wikipedia Commons.