Antsla

Antsla
Town
Town center
Antsla Location in Estonia
Coordinates: 57°49′45″N 26°31′44″E
Country	Estonia
County	Võru County
Municipality	Antsla Parish
Population  (2018)[1]
• Total	1,311
• Rank	39th
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Antsla is a town in Võru County, southern Estonia, it is the administrative seat of Antsla Parish.

The borough of Antsla was reclassified as a third-rank town by Konstantin Päts on 1 May 1938. The settlement was first attested in 1405. The town has a furniture factory.

Antsla is located on the Valga–Pechory railway, but train traffic on the line has been inactive since 2001.

Notable people

• Aimar Altosaar (born 1959), sociologist and politician
• Teo Krüüner (born 1943), military major general
• Maarja Nummert (born 1944), architect
• Vilja Toomast (born 1962), politician
• Vahur Kersna (born 1962), journalist
• Urmas Välbe (born 1966), cross-country skier
• Andrus Värnik (born 1977), javelin thrower

Gallery

Panorama of Antsla

References

1. Population by sex, age and place of residence after the 2017 administrative reform, 1 January. Statistics Estonia.