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Narva
[nahr-vuh]
noun
a city in NE Estonia: Swedish defeat of Russians 1700.
Narva
/ ˈԲə /
noun
a port in Estonia on the Narva River near the Gulf of Finland: developed around a Danish fortress in the 13th century; textile centre. Pop: 66 712 (2007 est)
Example Sentences
Narva is separated from Russia by a river with the same name.
Some 96% of people in Narva are mother-tongue Russian speakers.
Estonia worries a confident Vladimir Putin might use the big ethnic Russian community in and around Narva as an excuse to invade.
Would the US, or even France, Italy or the UK, risk going to war with nuclear power Russia over Narva, a small part of tiny Estonia, on the eastern fringe of Nato?
When you travel to windswept Narva, in northern Estonia, you see why the country feels so exposed.
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