Antsla

Antsla (German: Anzen) is a town in Võru County, southern Estonia, it is the administrative seat of Antsla Parish.

The borough of Antsla was reclassified as a third-rank town by Konstantin Päts on 1 May 1938. The settlement was first attested in 1405. The town has a furniture factory.

During the Second World War, Soviet forces captured Antsla in August 1944; German losses included hundreds of troops and large quantities of equipment.^[2]

Antsla is located on the Valga–Pechory railway, but train traffic on the line has been inactive since 2001.

• Aimar Altosaar (born 1959), sociologist and politician
• Halja Klaar (1930–2021), film artist
• Teo Krüüner (born 1943), military major general
• Joel Luhamets (born 1952), Lutheran prelate, bishop of the Southern Region
• Maarja Nummert (1944–2024), architect
• Vilja Toomast (born 1962), politician
• Vahur Kersna (born 1962), journalist
• Urmas Välbe (born 1966), cross-country skier
• Andrus Värnik (born 1977), javelin thrower