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After more than 700 years of German, Swedish and Russian rule, Latvia, with Riga as its capital city, declared its independence on 18 November 1918. During the Latvian War of Independence , the city was contested by the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic established by the Red Army , Freikorps battalions composed of Baltic Germans and ...
Latvia's capital city Riga, founded in 1201 by Germans at the mouth of the Daugava, became a strategic base in a papally-sanctioned conquest of the area by the Livonian Brothers of the Sword. It was to be the first major city of the southern Baltic and, after 1282, a principal trading centre in the Hanseatic League.
Riga, with its central geographic position and concentration of population, has always been the infrastructural hub of Latvia. Several national roads begin in Riga, and European route E22 crosses Riga from the east and west, while the Via Baltica crosses Riga from the south and north. As a city situated by a river, Riga also has several bridges.
Free City of Riga (German: Freie Stadt Riga, Latvian: Rīgas brīvpilsēta) is a city-state, which existed in modern times, one of the German state formations that arose in the medieval Baltic during the crisis of the Livonian Confederation at the end of the 16th century. The main governing body of the city during these years was the Riga City ...
1781 – City becomes capital of Riga viceroyalty. [1] 1782 – The Riga City Theater is founded. [12] 1785 – Our Lady of Sorrows Church built. 1796 – City becomes capital of Livonia. [1] 1798 – Grebenstchikov House of Prayer rebuilt. [citation needed]
The burning of the Riga synagogues occurred in 1941, during the first days of the Nazi German occupation of the city of Riga, the capital and largest city in the country of Latvia. Many Jews confined in the synagogues died in the fires. Many other anti-Semitic measures were launched at the same time, ultimately followed by the murder of the ...
The largest ecclesiastical state was the Archbishopric of Riga (18,000 km 2, 6,900 sq mi) followed by the Bishopric of Courland (4,500 km 2, 1,700 sq mi), Bishopric of Dorpat, and Bishopric of Ösel-Wiek. The nominal head of Terra Mariana as well as the city of Riga was the Archbishop of Riga as the apex of the ecclesiastical hierarchy. [15]
Totensonntag (German: [ˈtoːtn̩zɔntaːk] ⓘ, Sunday of the Dead), also called Ewigkeitssonntag (Eternity Sunday) or Totenfest, is a Protestant religious holiday in Germany and Switzerland, commemorating the faithful departed.