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  • proper noun A river in Eastern Europe, flowing through Russia, Belarus and Latvia to the Gulf of Riga.

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Examples

  • I love your little bald head, she said, lying next to him naked and warm under the massive white covers of the bed that sat square in the middle of her loft overlooking the Daugava.

    A Bear Hunt in Riga Josef K. Strosche 2011

  • By the time the German forces crossed the Daugava River which flows to the northwest toward Riga on the Baltic coast, it was anticipated that the northwestern front would have been consolidated, all the way down to Minsk.

    Deathride John Mosier 2010

  • By the time the German forces crossed the Daugava River which flows to the northwest toward Riga on the Baltic coast, it was anticipated that the northwestern front would have been consolidated, all the way down to Minsk.

    Deathride John Mosier 2010

  • Once the Germans reached the Daugava in the north, and the Don in the south, the second phase would begin: a movement on Leningrad and Moscow at one end, and on Rostov and points further east on the south.

    Deathride John Mosier 2010

  • Once the Germans reached the Daugava in the north, and the Don in the south, the second phase would begin: a movement on Leningrad and Moscow at one end, and on Rostov and points further east on the south.

    Deathride John Mosier 2010

  • The new museum will be located along the river Daugava in Andrejsala, an old port and a veritable smorgasboard of orphaned lots adopted by cultural ambitions in Riga.

    Old Factory becomes Latvian Contemporary Art Museum | Inhabitat 2008

  • The number three bus in Riga winds from the mouth of the river Daugava, past the lovely old center of the city, to the miles of Lego-brick, Soviet-era blocks in Plavnieki.

    Taipei Times 2010

  • Krumins is a member of Daugava Vanagi - Hawk of the Daugava - founded in 1945 by 12,000 legionnaires in a British POW camp at Zedelgem in Belgium "to support the veterans and families of the dead, scattered into exile during Soviet occupation," says Krumins.

    Taipei Times 2010

  • Environment, a small four-story building nearby the Daugava river.

    de.indymedia.org newswire 2010

  • Environment, a small four-story building nearby the Daugava river.

    de.indymedia.org newswire 2010

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