The Latvian historian Heinrihs Strods and the German Holocaust historians Andrej Angrick and Peter Klein conclude that a more a realistic number of deaths at Salaspils is 2, 000 – 3, 000 in total, including children.

With the Soviet occupation in 1940, the German invasion in 1941, the Holocaust, the return of Soviet forces in 1944, and the illegal mobilization of Latvian citizens by both occupying powers, severe demographic changes took place.

* 1997 – Isaiah Berlin, Latvian historian ( b. 1909 )

Latvian historian Modris Eksteins wrote:

* Uldis Ģērmanis, Latvian historian and writer

In 1988, based on research in the KGB archives, the historian of anarchism Philip Ruff suggested Peter the Painter might in fact be Gederts Eliass, a Latvian artist involved in the 1905 Revolution and living in exile during the time of the Siege, returning to Riga after the 1917 Revolution.

In 1988, based on research in the KGB archives, the historian of anarchism Philip Ruff suggested Peter the Painter might in fact be Gederts Eliass, a Latvian artist involved in the 1905 Revolution and living in exile during the time of the Siege, returning to Riga after the 1917 Revolution.

She studied art at Latvian Academy of Art from 1977 to 1981 and worked as an art historian, publishing a book, Latvian textile art, in 1989.

In June 1989, Hans von Herwarth met the Latvian historian and member of the Soviet parliament, Mavriks Vulfsons, during the latter's visit to West Germany.

The historian Arveds Švābe describes the New Current as " connected to the political awakening of the Latvian working class, its first organizations, and the propagandization of socialist ideas .".

This " luggage with the dangerous contents ," as the historian Uldis Ģērmanis called it, was the seed of the Latvian Social Democratic Party.

* 1926 – Gil Kane, Latvian cartoonist ( d. 2000 )

* 1887 – Marija Leiko, Latvian actress ( d. 1937 )

* 1920 – The Latvian – Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.

French, Dutch, Italian, and Latvian are languages that do not have aspirated consonants.

Lithuanian baltas, Latvian balts ) has a word meaning " the white, the good ", and Grimm speculates that the name may originate as a Baltic loan into Proto-Germanic.

While related, the Lithuanian, the Latvian, and particularly the Old Prussian vocabularies differ substantially from one another and are not mutually intelligible.

* Latvian (~ 2 – 2. 5 million speakers, whereof ~ 1. 39 million native speakers, 0. 5 – 1 million ethnic Russian speakers, 0. 15 million others )

Latvian appeared in a hymnal in 1530 and in a printed Catechism in 1585.

" Around 1840 the German nobles of the Governorate of Livonia devised the term " Balts " to mean themselves, the German upper classes of Livonia, excluding the Latvian and Estonian lower classes.

* In Latvia, communist organizations were officially banned and a major part of the party there had broken away in 1990 and formed the Latvian Social Democratic Party.

The River Daugava ( in Latvian ) or Western Dvina (;,, Дзвiна, Dzvina ; ), not to be confused with Northern Dvina, is a river rising in the Valdai Hills, Russia, flowing through Russia, Belarus, and Latvia, draining into the Gulf of Riga in Latvia, an arm of the Baltic Sea.

* 1972 – Sergei Zholtok, Latvian ice hockey player ( d. 2004 )

:* Latvian has the following letters: ā ē ī ū ŗ ļ ķ ņ ģ š ž č.

One of the most extensive was perhaps the work done in Riga by Krisjanis Barons who between the years between 1894 and 1915 published six volumes including the texts of 217 996 Latvian folk songs ; the Latvju dainas.

For example, the words preservative ( English ), préservatif ( French ), Präservativ ( German ), prezervativ ( Romanian, Czech, Croatian ), preservativ ( Slovenian ), preservativo ( Italian, Spanish, Portuguese ), prezerwatywa ( Polish ), презерватив " prezervativ " ( Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian ), prezervatif ( Turkish ), præservativ ( Danish ), prezervatyvas ( Lithuanian ), Prezervatīvs ( Latvian ) and preservatiu ( Catalan ) are all derived from the Latin word praeservativum.

Below is the conjugation of the verb to be in the present tense ( of the infinitive, if it exists, and indicative moods ), in English, German, Dutch, Afrikaans, Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian, Latvian, Bulgarian, Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian, Polish, Slovenian, Hindi, Persian, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Albanian, Armenian, Irish, Ancient Attic Greek and Modern Greek.

Fashioning themselves as rowdy Irish-American hooligans ( although Lethal is Latvian American ), they toured with various rap and alternative-rock bands after their breakthrough.

As a temporary lieutenant-colonel, he led the Baltic German Landeswehr in the Latvian War of Independence, commanding units loyal to Latvia in the successful drive to eject the Bolsheviks from Latgalia.

* 1930 – Jānis Krūmiņš, Latvian basketball player ( d. 1994 )

* 1973 – Kārlis Skrastiņš, Latvian ice hockey player ( d. 2011 )

* 1905 – Kārlis Baumanis, Latvian composer ( b. 1835 )

As of November 2005, about 109, 000 persons have applied for naturalization and about 103, 000 of them have been granted Latvian citizenship.

There are about 1. 39 million native Latvian speakers in Latvia and about 115 thousand abroad.

The adoption of Latvian by minorities was brought about by its status as the only official language of the country, its prominence in the education system, its sole use in the public sector and by changes in the society after the fall of the Soviet Union that shifted linguistic focus away from Russian.

Seventy-five novels and twenty-eight short stories about Maigret were published between 1931 and 1972, starting with Pietr-le-Leton ( Latvian Pete ) and concluding with Maigret et Monsieur Charles ( Maigret and Monsieur Charles ).

From 1946 to 1998, a Latvian gymnasium ( school ) was operating in Münster, and in 1947, one of the largest of about 93 Latvian libraries in the West was established in Münster.

During this period she authored ten books and about 160 articles, essays or book chapters and has given over 250 speeches, allocutions and scientific communications in English, French or Latvian, and gave numerous radio, TV and press interviews in various languages.

Four biographies about President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga have been published ( in Latvian, English, French, Finnish, Italian, Russian and Spanish ), and a full length documentary film The Threefold Sun in 2008.

The chronicle tells about a battle that took place around 1280, in which ancient Latvian tribes from Cēsis, a city in the northern part of Latvia, went to war, bearing a red flag with a white stripe.

Only about ten percent of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian Jews survived the war.

Latvian newspapers started writing about aspects of Latvian history which had been banned during the Soviet period ( for example, how Latvia had been occupied in 1940 ).

The Brooklyn-based history band, Piñataland, recorded a song about Leedskalnin entitled " Latvian Bride " for their 2003 album Songs for the Forgotten Future Vol.

* The New York-based band Piñataland wrote a song about Leedskalnin and the Coral Castle, called " Latvian Bride ".

It was printed at about the same time as the first books in neighbouring nations ' languages: Polish in 1513 or 1514, Belarusian in 1522, Estonian in 1535, and Latvian in 1585.

* A July 17, 2006 LETA news item about the threat of violence-in Latvian.

This article is about Latvian military formations in World War I and Russian Civil War.

A total of about 40, 000 troops were drafted into the Latvian Riflemen Division.

The casualties included 9, 000 Latvian riflemen, about a third of the total number at that time.

" The operation was the second in a series of national operations of the NKVD, carried out by the Soviet Union against ethnic diasporas including Latvian, Finnish, German and Romanian, based on a theory about the fifth column residing along its western borders, and the Party's pronouncement of a " hostile capitalist surrounding.

The death rate among Russians in Latvia is higher than that of Latvians in Latvia and Russians in Russia, in part due to the unfavourable social conditions that have come about in Latvian cities following the enforced destruction of the industrial economy in the beginning of the 1990s.

His book " Survival-A Refugee Life ", published in 2005, talks about the harrowing ordeals the young Bruemmer went through during World War II, which led him from his Latvian birthplace to eventual immigration to Canada.

In the late 1944, a territory in northeastern Latvian SSR of about 1, 300 square kilometers was ceded to Russian SFSR.