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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 Ages along the Dvina-Dnieper trade route to Byzantium.
Riga Latvian Society founded. [17] 1869 Polytechnic built. [4] Riga City Art Gallery opens. [11] Latvian Museum of National History founded. 1870 – Kunstverein founded. [11] 1873 – Latvian Song and Dance Festival begins. 1877 – Tornakalns – Tukums II Railway begins operating; Brasa Station opens. 1878 – Imperial city self-government ...
In German-occupied Riga, after a preliminary meeting on September 14, on September 23, 1917, the Latvian Social Democratic party, together with the Latvian Farmers' Union and some smaller republican and socialist parties, formed the Democratic Bloc, which petitioned Ober Ost for the restoration of an elected Riga City Council, the re-opening of ...
Riga is one of the key economic and financial centres of the Baltic states. Roughly half of all the jobs in Latvia are in Riga and the city generates more than 50% of Latvia's GDP as well as around half of Latvia's exports. The biggest exporters are in wood products, IT, food and beverage manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, transport and metallurgy ...
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 ...
The House of the Blackheads (Latvian: Melngalvju nams, German: Schwarzhäupterhaus) is a building situated in the old town of Riga, Latvia. [1] The original building was erected in 1334 as a warehouse, meeting and celebration place for merchants. It was the biggest public building of Riga.
The Latvian SSR Supreme Council adopted the declaration On the Restoration of Independence of the Republic of Latvia. 1991: January: The Barricades: Pro-Communist political forces attempted to restore Soviet power in Latvia. 6 September: The Soviet Union recognized Latvian independence. 17 September: Latvia became a member of the United Nations.
With the outbreak of World War II and under the influence of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union invaded Latvia as a whole, and Riga in particular. From the summer of 1940, Soviet rule was established in the area. Many young Jews migrated to Riga from other nearby cities and settled there.