Lielvārde
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Lielvārde, population 5885, is a town in Ogre Municipality in the Vidzeme region of Latvia, on the right bank of the Daugava river, 52 km southeast of Riga. The town is also the extra-territorial cent
Lielvārde Lutheran church
Prospect of Lennewarden on the Daugava river, 52 versts from Riga in 1792. From Johann Christoph Brotze's book Sammlung verschiedner Liefländischer Monumente.
Lielvārde Air base
Ruins of Lielvārde medieval castle
Andrejs Pumpurs
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Andrejs Pumpurs was a poet who penned the Latvian epic Lāčplēsis and a prominent figure in the Young Latvia movement. Working in the land before volunteering to fight in Serbia against the Ottoman Emp
Lielvārde
…Lielvārde was granted town rights in 1992. Lielvārde is renowned as the area that inspired the prominent Latvian poets Auseklis and Andrejs Pumpurs, author of the epic Lāčplēsis (The Bear Slayer, 1888), and for the Lielvārdes josta, a traditional woven belt with 22 ancient symbols. Portions of the…
Andrejs Pumpurs
Memorial in Daugavpils