Jõgeva

Jõgeva is a small town in Estonia with a population of around five thousand people, and it is the capital of both Jõgeva Parish and Jõgeva County. It is on the right shore of the Pedja River, which flows through the town from north to south, and the Tallinn to Tartu railway line runs parallel with the river. Tartu and Tallinn are respectively 51 and 154 kilometres away, both reached by rail as well as by road. The place was first mentioned in 1599 as Jagiwa manor, established on the lands of the village of the same name by order of the Polish king, and it passed through the Laiuse starostwo and later the Laiuse fief under Swedish rule. In 1756 the manor became the property of Gotthard Johann von Manteuffel and stayed in that family until it was nationalized in 1919. A railway station named Laisholm after the manor opened nearby in 1876, which helped the settlement grow.