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A third of Riga's residents voluntarily left the city in 1916, and among those residents were also many Jews. At the beginning of September 1917, the German army managed to break through the Russian front in Latvia and advance towards Riga, [5] and before September 10, 1917, Riga fell into German hands.
Riga's territory covers 307.17 km 2 (118.60 sq mi) and lies 1–10 m (3–33 ft) above sea level [12] on a flat and sandy plain. [12] Riga was founded in 1201, and is a former Hanseatic League member. Riga's historical centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, noted for its Art Nouveau/Jugendstil architecture and 19th century wooden architecture ...
History of Riga. Riga skyline from across the Daugava in 1547. The history of Riga, the capital of Latvia, begins as early as the 2nd century with a settlement, the Duna urbs, at a natural harbor not far upriver from the mouth of the Daugava River. Later settled by Livs and Kurs, it was already an established trade center in the early Middle ...
2012–2016. Owner. Republic of Latvia. Website. www.president.lv. Riga Castle (Latvian: Rīgas pils) is a castle on the banks of River Daugava in Riga, the capital of Latvia. The castle was founded in 1330. Its structure was thoroughly rebuilt between 1497 and 1515. Upon the castle's seizure by the Swedes, they constructed spacious annexes in ...
The centre. National Library of Latvia (Latvijas Nacionālā bibliotēka) - the latest project of Gunārs Birkerts, called the Castle of Light (Gaismas pils). Riga Circus (Rīgas cirks) - the only permanently situated circus in the Baltic States. Vērmane Garden (Vērmanes dārzs) - the oldest public garden in Riga.
Riga Ghetto. Riga Ghetto was a small area in Maskavas Forštate, a neighbourhood of Riga, Latvia, where Nazis forced Jews from Latvia, and later from the German "Reich" (Germany, Austria, Bohemia, and Moravia), to live during World War II. On October 25, 1941, the Nazis evicted the ghetto's non-Jewish inhabitants and relocated all Jews from ...
W. Writers from Riga (64 P) Categories: Latvian people by city and occupation. People by city and occupation. People from Riga.
Z. Lilita Zatlere. Nathan A. Zepell. Categories: Riga. People by populated place in Latvia. People by republican city or municipality in Latvia. People from Vidzeme. Hidden categories: