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Saaremaa
Saaremaa (; Danish: Øsel; English (esp. traditionally): Osel; Finnish: Saarenmaa; Swedish & German: Ösel) is the largest island in Estonia, measuring .〔(Official Web page of Saaremaa )〕 The main island of Saare County, it is located in the Baltic Sea, south of Hiiumaa island, and belongs to the West Estonian Archipelago. The capital of the island is Kuressaare, which has about 15,000 inhabitants; the whole island has over 30,966 inhabitants.
==Etymology==
The island is called ''Saaremaa'' in Estonian, and in Finnish ''Saarenmaa'' — literally "isle land" or "island land". In old Scandinavian sagas, Saaremaa is called ''Eysysla'' and in the Icelandic Sagas ''Eysýsla'', which means exactly the same as the name of the island in Estonian: "the district (land) of island". This is the origin of the island's name in Danish ''Øsel'', German and Swedish, ''Ösel'', Gutnish ''Oysl'', and in Latin, ''Osilia''. The name ''Eysysla'' appears sometimes together with ''Adalsysla'', "the big land", perhaps 'Suuremaa' or 'Suur Maa' in Estonian, which refers to mainland Estonia. In Latvian, the island is called ''Sāmsala'', which means "the island of Saami".
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