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# Sillamäe

A settlement in Estonia.

## English name

**Sillamäe** — The Estonian Latin-script name, retained in English; no romanization is needed.

Other forms in use:

- **Sillamäggi** — Historical Germanised spelling quoted in English descriptions of the town.
- **Sillamägi** — Historical Germanised variant quoted in the English reference entry.
- **Sillamyae** — Russian-based English spelling of Силламяэ.
- **Sillamae** — Diacritic-free search and plain-text spelling of the local Latin name; not a separate official name.

## French name

**Sillamäe** — Same form as in English; retained in the French reference entry checked.

Other forms in use:

- **Sillamäggi** — Germanised historical name for French Baltic-history searches; prose frequency is unverified.
- **Sillamyae** — Russian-based international search spelling; not the current French main.
- **Sillamae** — Same local name without its diacritics, useful in French indexes, URLs and plain-text sources.

## About

Sillamäe is a town on the Gulf of Finland in northeastern Estonia, at the mouth of the Sõtke River. Its Soviet-era industrial history includes uranium processing, and its centre retains a distinctive ensemble of architecture from that period.

Identifiers: [Wikidata Q207748](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q207748) · [JSON](https://md.locations.elamur.ai/free/en/estonia/sillamae/?format=json)


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