Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- The capital and largest city of Latvia on the Gulf of Riga, an inlet of the Baltic Sea bordering on Latvia and Estonia. Founded as a trading post on a site originally inhabited by Baltic tribes, the city became a member of the Hanseatic League in 1282 and later passed to Poland (1581), Sweden (1621), and Russia (1710).
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- proper noun The capital of
Latvia .
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- noun a port city on the Gulf of Riga that is the capital and largest city of Latvia; formerly a member of the Hanseatic League
Etymologies
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Latvia: [...] a Pride march was held in Riga to celebrate the rights of LGBT people.
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Latvia: [...] a Pride march was held in Riga to celebrate the rights of LGBT people.
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This year the courses took place in Riga, because of ever increasing interest in the Old rite.
News, Video and Images from Lithuania: Ad Fontes and the Usus Antiquior at Riga Cathedral 2009
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Ostwald in Riga, who, in fact, travelled to Uppsala to initiate
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010
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In 1886-1990 Arrhenius did work with Ostwald, first in Riga and then in Leipzig, and also with van't Hoff in Berlin.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010
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ERGES, an architecture and design studio based in Riga, Latvia, have sent us photos of a recently completed interior design project.
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At the opposite end of the emotional spectrum came my visits to the Occupation Museum in Riga, the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania, and the Antakalnis Cemetery in Vilnius.
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I happened, quite by chance, to arrive in Riga on the opening day of the huge, five-yearly song and dance festival for the region.
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My experience in both Talin and Riga is several years old now and so probably out of date.
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The Briton, identified only as John, was detained early on Friday evening by the Freedom Monument in Riga - the memorial to all those who have sacrificed their lives in the cause of Latvian freedom, police spokeswoman Inese Timane told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
Urinating in London 2007
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