Tartu

American  

[tahr-too] / ˈtɑr tu /

noun

1. a city in SE Estonia.

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Tartu British  

/ ˈtartu /

noun

1. Former name (11th century until 1918): Yurev.  German name: Dorpat.  a city in SE Estonia: successively under Polish, Swedish, and Russian rule; university (1632). Pop: 95 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

Staying close to her family in the Mediterranean city of Tartus during the Covid-19 pandemic, she sent him a voice message, playing back a piece of his diatribe that had been secretly recorded.

From The Wall Street Journal

The community is otherwise mostly present across their coastal heartland in Latakia and Tartus provinces.

From Barron's

Medications a person took years ago can still influence the community of microbes living in their gut, according to a large study conducted by the University of Tartu Institute of Genomics.

From Science Daily

It also recently signed deals to upgrade Syria’s Port of Tartus, to expand the Dominican Republic’s port and free trade zone at Caucedo, and to expand Canada’s Port of Montreal.

From The Wall Street Journal

He had escaped the first days of the unrest from Tartus city to his hometown village of Sheikh Saeed, 22 miles north of the Lebanese border.

From Los Angeles Times