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Petseri County ((エストニア語:Petserimaa)) was a county of Estonia established in 1918. Since 1944, however, most of the county has been administered as Pechorsky District of Pskov Oblast, first by the Russian SFSR and then, from 1991, by Russia.〔See Territorial changes in the Baltic states during and after World War II.〕 ==History== The whole historic province of Petseri County (''Petserimaa'') is regarded as the homeland of the Setos,〔( Culture and Power at the Edges of the State By Thomas M. Wilson, Hastings Donnan; ISBN 3-8258-7569-5; p. 268 )〕 a Finnic people related to Estonians. The Russian inhabitants of Petseri district were mainly Old Believers who spoke a transitional dialect between Russian and the Belarusian language.〔(The Slavonic and East European Review - Page 516 )〕 In the mid-15th century one of the most important Russian Orthodox monasteries, the Pskovo-Pechersky Monastery, was founded in the area.〔( Post-Cold War Identity Politics: Northern and Baltic Experiences; ISBN 0-7146-5428-0; p. 263 )〕 During the last year of World War I, from February to December 1918, the county's capital, Pechory, was occupied by German forces. As such, the county including the town and the territory surrounding it was devised to be part of the Baltic Duchy. The town was then captured by Estonian forces on March 29, 1919, during the Estonian War of Independence. The Treaty of Tartu of 1920 subsequently assigned Pechory and its surrounding territory, the Setomaa region, to Estonia. Pechory was renamed Petseri and the area became Petseri County. Saint Peter's Lutheran Church was built in 1926 at Petseri. During World War II, Petseri County was occupied by the German army between August 1941 and August 11, 1944, then by Soviet forces during their advance toward Nazi Germany. Soviet authorities transferred most of Petseri county from the Estonian SSR to the Russian SFSR in 1944. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Estonia raised the question of a return to the borders under the Treaty of Tartu. Estonia dropped this claim in November 1995.〔( A Political and Economic Dictionary of Eastern Europe, p. 443, ISBN 1-85743-063-8 )〕 Estonia and Russia signed the Estonian-Russian Border Treaty on May 18, 2005: the preamble noted that the international border had partly changed, in accordance with Article 122 of the Estonian Constitution.〔(Estonian Parliament ratifies Estonian-Russian border treaties )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Petseri County」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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