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BITS OF CULTURE - Estonia |
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Religion & Death Concepts/Rituals |
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Official language:
Estonian
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- When being introduced to people, handshaking is customary
and giving flowers is always welcome, especially when visiting
somebody.
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- Smoked fish, especially trout (suitsukala) is an Estonian
specialty.
- At Christmas time, sausages are prepared from fresh blood
and wrapped in pig's intestine. Blood sausages (verevorst)
and blood pancakes (vere pannkoogid) are served in most
traditional Estonian restaurants.
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- Estonians have one of the biggest collections of folk
songs in the world, with written records of about 133,000
folk songs.
- The length of the longest day in summer is over 19 hours,
while the shortest winter day lasts only six hours. It is
not completely dark at night from the beginning of May until
the end of July.
- There are more than 1,500 islands, 1,000 lakes (5 per
cent of the Estonian territory), 7,000 rivers and streams
in Estonia, bogs and wooded swamplands of different types
cover over one fifth of the country.
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