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Reastvere

village in Jõgeva Rural Municipality, Jõgeva County, Estonia

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ3464536 ↗
Source-derived summary

Reastvere is a village in Jõgeva Parish, Jõgeva County in Estonia. Reastvere has a population of 47 (as of 1 January 2011).

Reastvere is located about 3 km (2 mi) northwest of Sadala. The Pedja River flows through Reastvere.

Reastvere was first mentioned as Restfer in 1408.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Reastvere” is village in Jõgeva Rural Municipality, Jõgeva County, Estonia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Reastvere, village and Jõgeva, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 1408—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Reastvere, village and Jõgeva is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “village in Jõgeva Rural Municipality, Jõgeva County, Estonia” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

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 Apr 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3464536. Authority coordinates are 58.887, 26.553. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011 and 1408.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Reastvere”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Reastvere primary sources, Reastvere archive and Reastvere research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Reastvere”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Reastvere” 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.