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Võsu

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Võsu is a small borough (Estonian: alevik) in Lääne-Viru County, in Haljala Parish, in Estonia. It was the administrative centre of Vihula Parish. As of the 2011 census, the settlement's population was 334.^[1]

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Name

Võsu was attested in historical sources as Wöso in 1510, Wose in 1586, and Weso in 1726. The settlement was named after the Võsu River [et] (attested in 1534 as Fassenbek and Wesenbeck), the name of which is derived from the noun võsa 'brushwood, brush, scrub'.^[2]

History

From 1971 to 1999, Võsu was a borough (alev). From 1992 to 1999, it had the status of a municipality.

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