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Riga

Riga (; , ) is the capital and the largest city of Latvia. With 696,593 inhabitants (2015), Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states and home to one third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga, at the mouth of the Daugava. Riga's territory covers 307.17 km (118.60 sq mi) and lies between 1 and 10 metres (3.3 and 32.8 ft) above sea level, on a flat and sandy plain.

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. Riga was the European Capital of Culture during 2014, along with Umeå in Sweden. Riga hosted the 2006 NATO Summit, the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, and the 2006 IIHF Men's World Ice Hockey Championships. It is home to the European Union's office of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC). Riga is served by Riga International Airport, the largest airport in the Baltic states.

Riga is a member of Eurocities, the Union of the Baltic Cities (UBC) and Union of Capitals of the European Union (UCEU).

Riga (disambiguation)

Riga is the capital of Latvia.

Riga may also refer to:

Riga (moped)

The Riga was a Latvian moped built in Riga between 1965 and 1992.

Riga (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Riga (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is an assembly constituency in Sitamarhi district in the Indian state of Bihar.

Riga (surname)

Riga is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Crystallia Riga, Greek singer
  • Jose Riga, Belgian football coach
  • Petrus Riga, French poet
  • Stevie Riga, French professional football player

Usage examples of "riga".

Catherine II, wishing to shew herself to her new subjects, over whom she was in reality supreme, though she had put the ghost of a king in the person of Stanislas Poniatowski, her former favourite, on the throne of Poland, came to Riga, and it was then I saw this great sovereign for the first time.

In a few sentences he let me know what he could do for me if I intended to spend some time at Riga.

I left Riga with the thermometer indicating fifteen degrees of frost, but though I travelled day and night, not leaving the carriage for the sixty hours for which my journey lasted, I did not feel the cold in the least.

I set out well pleased with the assistance the stuttering Lambert had given me, and by noon I was at Riga.

At Riga an English merchant named Collins told me that the so-called Baron de Stenau, who had given me the forged bill of exchange, had been hanged in Portugal.

When I saw her at Riga she was thirty-five, and had reigned two years.

From Riga, we were four days before getting to Konigsberg, where Madame Valville, who was expected at Berlin, had to leave me.

I was taking leave of him at the same time he said he would have me drive to Riga in one of his carriages, and he gave me a letter for his son, Prince Charles, who was in garrison there.

Shane was looking at Lorain Rigas and there was a dim mocking glitter in his eyes.

While Poles rescued Latvians at Riga, Germans rescued Poles along the Pomeranian Coast.

A request has been made to Soviet Zonal headquarters at Potsdam for further information about the concentration camp in Riga, Latvia, and a search for further witnesses is under way, the spokesman said.

We spent the night at Klein Roop, near Riga, and she offered to give me her diamonds, her jewels, and all that she possessed.

There was, furthermore, a squint-eyed Lithuanian skipper, wanted for murder in Riga and for piracy in Pernambuco, who took them to Vladivostok and into the tranquil presence of a Nanking compradore with gold-encased fingernails and a charming taste in early Ming porcelain.

Engelhardt, Die ersten Versuche zur Aufrichtung des wahren Christenthums in einer Gemeinde von Heiligen, Riga, 1881.

Veyitkaddash, Shemay rabbah And so it was that, twenty-one years after it had died in Riga, a major of paratroops of the Army of Israel, standing on a hill in the Promised Land, finally said Kaddish for the soul of Salomon Tauber.