Crossword clues for latvia
latvia
- Baltic country
- View from the Baltic Sea
- Baltic Sea country
- Baltic nation
- One of the Baltics
- Neighbor of Lithuania
- Its capital is Riga
- Country on the Baltic
- The Western Dvina flows through it
- Sweden's neighbor across the Baltic
- South of Estonia
- Riga's realm
- Riga's locale
- Riga is its Capital
- One view from the Baltic Sea
- Land on the Baltic Sea
- Estonia neighbor
- Country on the Gulf of Riga
- Country north of Lithuania
- Certain Baltic State
- A Baltic state
- Baryshnikov's birthplace
- Neighbor of Belarus
- Riga's land
- NATO member since 2004
- 8-Down's home
- Belarus neighbor
- Where "hello" is "sveiks"
- A republic in northeastern Europe on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea
- Liepaja's country
- A Soviet republic
- Baltic republic
- Where Daugavpils is
- Got back trouble carrying a box to Baltic state
- Country going through after former finalist lost
- Elevated trail taken regularly through country
- A box I posted in the French Republic
- Riga's country
- Riga’s country
- Bring up trouble about a broadcast medium in European country
- One of the Baltic states
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Baltic nation, independent from 1918, named for its inhabitants, Latvian Latvji, whose ancient name is of unknown origin. In English, the people name was Lett. Parts of the modern state were known previously as Livonia (from Estonian liiv "sand") and Courland (from Curonians, name of a Lettish people, of unknown origin).
WordNet
Wikipedia
Latvia (; ), officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe, one of the three Baltic states. It is bordered by Estonia to the north, Lithuania to the south, Russia to the east, and Belarus to the southeast, as well as a maritime border to the west alongside Sweden. Latvia has 2,070,371 inhabitants and a territory of . The country has a temperate seasonal climate.
Latvia is a democratic parliamentary republic established in 1918. The capital city is Riga, the European Capital of Culture 2014. Latvian is the official language. Latvia is a unitary state, divided into 118 administrative divisions, of which 109 are municipalities and 9 are cities.
Latvians and Livs are the indigenous people of Latvia. Latvian is an Indo-European language; it and Lithuanian are the only two surviving Baltic languages. Despite foreign rule from the 13th to 20th centuries, the Latvian nation maintained its identity throughout the generations via the language and musical traditions. Latvia and Estonia share a long common history. As a consequence of the Soviet occupation, both countries are home to a large number of ethnic Russians (26.9% in Latvia and 25.5% in Estonia), some of whom are non-citizens.
Latvia is historically predominantly Protestant Lutheran, except for the Latgale region in the southeast, which has historically been predominantly Roman Catholic. The Russian population has also brought a significant portion of Eastern Orthodox Christians.
The Republic of Latvia was founded on 18 November 1918. However, its de facto independence was interrupted at the outset of World War II. In 1940, the country was forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union, invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany in 1941, and re-occupied by the Soviets in 1944 to form the Latvian SSR for the next fifty years. The peaceful Singing Revolution, starting in 1987, called for Baltic emancipation of Soviet rule. It ended with the Declaration on the Restoration of Independence of the Republic of Latvia on 4 May 1990, and restoring de facto independence on 21 August 1991.
Latvia is a democratic and developed country and member of the European Union, NATO, the Council of Europe, the United Nations, CBSS, the IMF, NB8, NIB, OECD, OSCE, and WTO. For 2014, Latvia was listed 46th on the Human Development Index and as a high income country on 1 July 2014. It used the Latvian lats as its currency until it was replaced by the euro on 1 January 2014.
In European elections, Latvia is a constituency of the European Parliament, currently represented by nine MEPs. It covers the member state of Latvia. The electoral system used is party-list proportional representation.
Latvia is a country in Europe. Latvia can also refer to:
- Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (1940–1990)
- Latvia (European Parliament constituency)
- 1284 Latvia - asteroid
- Latvia Peak - mountain in Tajikistan
Usage examples of "latvia".
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.
Soviets took eastern Poland, Moldavia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Albania.
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Albania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, East Germany, Yugoslavia, North Korea, Cuba, South Yemen, Congo-Brazzaville, North Vietnam, Guinea-Bissau, Cambodia, Laos, South Vietnam, Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique, Nicaragua, the Seychelles, Grenada, and Afghanistan.
If you are CIA recruits I can countermand the orders, I can insist that we take you back to Latvia so our experts can interrogate you.
And Latvia is a very small country no one here knows much about it, including me.
Little Latvia up in the Baltic did not at first understand what answer was expected of it, but the Foreign Office soon put it right.
Since all of Latvia was to be placed on the Soviet side of the line dividing the interests of the two powers, this demand presented no problem and Hitler quickly agreed.
Hitler to divide up Poland and to obtain a free hand to gobble up Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Bessarabia was not known outside Berlin and Moscow, but it would soon become evident from Soviet acts, and it would shock most of the world even at this late date.
Stalin expressly indicated Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, but did not mention Finland.
He was instantly abandoning not only Estonia but Latvia, both of which, he had agreed in the Nazi-Soviet Pact, belonged in the Soviet sphere of interest.
During the next couple of days similar Soviet ultimatums were dispatched to Latvia and Estonia, after which they were similarly overrun by the Red Army.
Anglo-French-Russian guarantee of Latvia and Estonia, which bordered on the Soviet Union, Germany had hastily signed nonaggression pacts with these two Baltic States on June 7.
As a result of a sedulous study of historical sentimentalities, traditions, dialects and local feelings, a whole cluster of new sovereign Powers, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Finland, Esthonia, Latvia, Lithuania, an attenuated Hungary and an enlarged Roumania, was evoked to crowd and complicate the affairs of mankind by their sovereign liberties, their ambitions, hostilities, alliances, understandings, misunderstandings, open and secret treaties, tariffs, trade wars and the like.
He told me about coming to the United States from a place called Latvia when he was just a kid and making good because he worked eighteen hours a day.
I think it was, a big, tall character turned up in our class, who had been evacuated from Latvia with his family.