Narva

[nahr-vuh]

noun

1. a city in NE Estonia: Swedish defeat of Russians 1700.

Narva

/ ˈnarvə /

noun

1. 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

The city of Narva in Estonia, once a textiles hub for the Russian Empire, is now host to Europe’s biggest production plant for the kinds of rare-earth magnets needed in electric cars and wind turbines.

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Suleman said he thinks Neo would choose Europe again if it was making a decision about its Narva factory today because customer demand is much higher in Europe than it is in the U.S. and because Neo already had a rare-earth separation facility near Narva.

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The city of Narva granted a building permit for the facility in 4½ months, a speed that Mayor Katri Raik said was the fastest possible under the country’s laws.

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In a sign of the symbolic importance of the Narva factory for European officials, the European Commission’s von der Leyen brought a permanent magnet from the factory to the Group of Seven industrialized countries’ gathering in Canada earlier this year to show to her fellow leaders.

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Narva is separated from Russia by a river with the same name.

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