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    Riga district (Latvian: Rīgas rajons) was an administrative division of Latvia, located in Semigallia and Vidzeme regions, in the centre of the country...
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    Riga (/ˈriːɡə/ REE-gə) is the capital, the primate, and the largest city of Latvia. Home to 605,273 inhabitants, the city accounts for a third of Latvia's...
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    37 km east of the capital Riga. The principal city was Ogre with around 30 000 inhabitants. Historically a part of Riga district, it was split off during...
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    occupation authorities to supersede counties (apriņķi, sg. apriņķis, e.g. Rīgas apriņķis), were divided into 77 cities (Latvian: pilsētas, sg. pilsēta)...
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    Central District (Latvian: Centra rajons) is one of the six administrative districts of Riga, the capital of Latvia. With an area of 3 km2 and a population...
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    Riga county (Latvian: Rīgas apriņķis, German: Kreis Riga, Russian: Рижскій уѣздъ, romanized: Rizhskiy uyezd) was a historic county of the Duchy of Livonia...
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    Centre") is a neighbourhood of Riga, the capital of Latvia, which includes the central part of the city minus Old Riga. Much of it is administered as...
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    Rumbula is a neighbourhood of Riga located in the Latgale Suburb, on the right bank of the Daugava river. With a population of about 368 inhabitants in...
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    Jaunciems is a neighborhood of Northern District in Riga, the capital of Latvia. It is located on the northeastern shore of Lake Ķīšezers. "Hot weather...
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    added to the Riga District, but the northern part was added to the newly created Valmieras and Valka County. At that time the Riga district without the...
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  • Kurzeme District (Latvian: Kurzemes rajons) is one of six administrative districts of Riga, the capital of Latvia. Kurzeme is the Latvian name for Courland...
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    Vecrīga (redirect from Old Riga)
    Vecrīga ("Old Riga") is the historical center and a neighbourhood (as Vecpilsēta) of Riga, Latvia, located in the Central District on the east side of...
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    Northern District (Latvian: Ziemeļu rajons) is one of six administrative districts of Riga, the capital of Latvia. The Northern District consists of several...
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  • Tukums, Latvia, where parts of Riga's Old Town and Riga's Pārdaugava district were built especially for Defenders of Riga. Around 200 extras took part in...
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    Riga City Council (Latvian: Rīgas dome) is the government of the city of Riga, the capital of Latvia. Its meeting place is in the Riga Town Hall (Rīgas...
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    it was part of Babīte Municipality. Prior to 2009, it was part of Riga District. Sala Parish is defined by Latvian law as a part of the region of Vidzeme...
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    The Treaty of Riga was signed in Riga, Latvia, on 18 March 1921 between Poland on one side and Soviet Russia (acting also on behalf of Soviet Belarus)...
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    bordered Estonia in the north, the former districts of Riga in the south and Valmiera in the east, and the Gulf of Riga in the west. It covered the territory...
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  • Riga United FC is a Latvian football club founded in 2007. The club plays at the School 49 ground in Riga. Riga United men's first team play in the Latvian...
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    The Latgale neighbourhood of Riga is situated on the right bank of the Daugava River, located to the south of Old Riga. Until 2024, the neighbourhood...
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    Landlines in Daugavpils District 6 59 xxxxx Reserved for landlines in Cēsis District 6 6x xxxxx 6 7x xxxxx Landlines in Riga District 6 80 xxxxx Reserved...
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    Riga is an assembly constituency in Sitamarhi district in the Indian state of Bihar. As per Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies Order...
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    a neighbourhood in the Vidzeme Suburb of Riga, the capital of Latvia. Teika is the only neighbourhood in Riga which was planned and partly built in the...
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    Semigallians (category Gulf of Riga)
    Kerkliņi, Priedīši, Rūsīši-Debeši Tukums district Mutstrauti, Zante Riga district Pļavniekkalns Pasvalys district Ąžuolpamūšė hillfort, Berklainiai, Daujėnai...
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    Albert of Riga or Albert of Livonia (c. 1165 – 17 January 1229) was the third Catholic Bishop of Riga in Livonia. In 1201, he allegedly founded the city...
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    Mežciems is a neighbourhood of Riga, Latvia. It is located in the eastern part of the city in the Vidzeme Suburb. The name is literally translated from...
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    officers were subsequently found guilty by the Riga District Court and were sentenced in absentia. Part of the Riga OMON troops remained loyal to the USSR and...
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    Gustavs Zemgals (category Burials at Forest Cemetery, Riga)
    succeeded "Jaunā Dienas Lapa" -"Mūsu Laiki" (Our Times). In July 1907, the Riga district court sentenced Zemgals to a three months long arrest for his work at...
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  • Rīgas Satiksme is a municipally-owned public transportation and infrastructure company serving Riga, Latvia and the surrounding areas. It was founded...
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    connect Riga to Liepāja and Liepāja to Ventspils, the latter being closed for public traffic. Also, one of the main roads in Latvia — route A9 from Riga to...
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