Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of northern Europe. It is one of the three Baltic states, along with Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the south. It bo
Turaida Castle near Sigulda, built in 1214 under Albert of Riga
Latvians national rally in Dundaga in 1905
Jānis Čakste (1859–1927), the first president of Latvia
Red Army troops enter Riga (1940)
Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea
Latvia
…Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of northern Europe. It is one of the three Baltic states, along with Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the south. It borders Russia to the east and Belarus to the southeast and shares a maritime border with Sweden to the…
Bronze Age stone-cist graves at Jõelähtme
Lübeck Law Codex for Tallinn
Academia Gustaviana, now the University of Tartu, was founded in 1632 by King Gustavus Adolphus
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (1803–1882), author of the Estonian national epic Kalevipoeg (by Johann Köler, 1864)