Külitse
township in Kambja Rural Municipality, Tartu County, Estonia
Külitse is a small borough in Kambja Parish, Tartu County, in southern Estonia. It is located about 6 km southwest of the city of Tartu by the Tartu–Valga–Riga railway and the European route E264 (also known as Via Hanseatica). Külitse has a population of 600 (as of 1 September 2010).
Külitse was first mentioned in 1582 as Kilicz.
In the beginning of the 1970s, a reservoir known as Ropka Lake was created in the village.
Külitse is served by Edelaraudtee's Ropka station which is located on the border of Külitse and Laane villages.
“Külitse” enters the record as township in Kambja Rural Municipality, Tartu County, Estonia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Külitse, township and Kambja can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Külitse” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Külitse, township and Kambja provides the most credible route into that argument.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3456708. Authority coordinates are 58.317, 26.613. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010 and 1582.
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This entry incorporates text from “Külitse” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.