Country Estonia Local time Thursday 3:54 AM | County Valga County Municipality Puka Parish | |
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Puka (German: Bockenhof) is a small borough (Estonian: alevik) in Valga County, southern Estonia. It is the administrative centre of Puka Parish. At the 2011 Census, the settlement's population was 580.
Architect Georg Hellat (1870–1943) was born in Puka.
On 1 May 1897, a military train derailed 3 km north of Puka. 58 people were killed and 44 deeply wounded in the accident.
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Puka, Estonia Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA