The Riga area was originally part of Ontario County, set up by the State Legislature in 1789.

With the intercession of the United States Department of State in Washington, DC and with the lobbying of many Jewish leaders on behalf of the Rebbe ( and, reputedly, with the help of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, the head of the Abwehr ), he was finally granted diplomatic immunity and given safe passage to go via Berlin to Riga, and then on to New York City, where he arrived on 19 March 1940.

On March 8 and April 12, 1918, the local Baltic German-dominated Kurländische Landesrat and the Vereinigter Landesrat of Livland, Estland, Riga, and Ösel had declared themselves independent states, known as the Duchy of Courland ( Herzogtum Kurland ) and Baltic State duchy ( Baltischer Staat ), respectively.

* P4 road ( Latvia ), a first class State road connecting Riga and Ērgļi

Non-financial investment per capita in Latvia in 2006 was LVL 1, 810. 1, in Riga – LVL 2, 816. 5, in Ventspils – LVL 3, 568. 8 ; in 2007 it was LVL 1, 939. 5 in Latvia, LVL 2, 926. 2 in Riga, and LVL 3. 445. 8 in Ventspils ( State Regional Development Agency, Regional Development in Latvia.

Ernst Louis Étienne Laspeyres ( November 28, 1834 – August 4, 1913 ) was Professor ordinarius of economics and statistics or State Sciences and cameralistics ( public finance and administration ) in Basel, Riga, Dorpat ( now Tartu ), Karlsruhe, and finally for 26 years in Gießen.

Riga State Gymnasium No. 1

Riga State Gymnasium No. 1 (), the oldest school in the Baltic states, offers secondary education ( grades 7 to 12 ) in Riga, the capital of Latvia.

Riga State Gymnasium No. 1 is also the best school in Latvia based on its students ' achievements at various domestic and international academic competitions.

* Riga State Gymnasium No. 1-Official site

Riga Polytechnical Institute was re-established in 1958 by splitting off the engineering departments from the State University of Latvia.

The Riga Business School management – education founded in 1991, in a close cooperation with the State University of New York at Buffalo, ( USA ) and the University of Ottawa, ( Canada ), it was as the first higher education institution in the Baltic states which offered Master of Business Administration ( MBA ) programs in English.

VEF, Latvian acronym for Valsts Elektrotehniskā Fabrika ( State Electrotechnical Factory ), is a manufacturer of electrical and electronic products in Riga, Latvia.

Bohlen joined the State Department in 1929, learned Russian and became a Soviet specialist, working first in Riga, Latvia.

Andris Biedriņš ( pronounced ; born April 2, 1986, in Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR ) is a Latvian professional basketball player who currently plays for the NBA's Golden State Warriors.

In 1921 Piłsudski was no longer the Head of State and was only an observer during the Riga negotiations, which he called " an act of cowardice ".

The mountain is located within the towns of Mount Washington, Massachusetts and Salisbury, Connecticut ; much of it has been conserved as part of Massachusetts ' Mount Washington State Forest and Connecticut's Mount Riga Forest Preserve.

Zodiac was formed by Jānis Lūsēns, then studying composition at the Latvian State Conservatory in Riga ( now Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music ).

Theodor Molien's father Eduard Molien was a teacher at the Riga Governorate Gymnasium.

During his education at the Riga City Gymnasium he met and befriended Pēteris Stučka, Dora Pliekšāne's future husband, who later become a prominent Latvian communist .< ref >

In 2007, following international pressure, a Pride Parade was held once again in Riga with 4, 500 people parading around Vermanes Park, protected physically from " No Pride " protesters by 1, 500 Latvian police, ringing the inside and the outside of the iron railings of the park.

In 1992 he was arrested in a case of theft of government property: AVEKS-Komi sent a train containing 55 cisterns ( tankers ) of diesel fuel, worth Р3. 8 million ( Roubles ), from the Ukhta Oil Refinery ( Case No. 79067 for the large-scale theft of state property ); Abramovich met the train in Moscow and resent the shipment to the Kaliningrad military base under a fake agreement, but the fuel arrived in Riga.

Broszat criticized Irving's claim that because of one telephone note written by Himmler stating " No liquidation " in regards to a train convoy of German Jews passing through Berlin to Riga ( whom the SS intended to have all shot upon arrival ) on 30 November 1941 that this proved that Hitler did not want to see the Holocaust happen.

Born in Riga in Livonia, then part of the Russian Empire, the Jewish German-speaking Nimzowitsch came from a wealthy family, where he learned chess from his father, who was a merchant.

The Archbishopric of Riga (, ) was an archbishopric in Medieval Livonia, a subject to the Holy See.

It was established in 1186 as the bishopric of Livonia at Üxküll, then after moving to Riga it became the bishopric of Riga in 1202 and was elevated to an archbishopric in 1255.

The archbishops of Riga were also the secular rulers of Riga until 1561 when during the reformation the territory converted from Catholicism to Lutheranism and all church territories were secularized.

The Baltic Sea might be considered to be bordered on its northern edge by the Gulf of Bothnia, on its northeastern edge by the Gulf of Finland, and on its eastern edge by the Gulf of Riga.

The ice-covered area during such a typical winter includes the Gulf of Bothnia, the Gulf of Finland, Gulf of Riga, Väinameri in the Estonian archipelago, the Stockholm archipelago and the Archipelago Sea.

The Gulf of Finland and the Gulf of Riga freeze typically in late January.

According to William Derham, during the severe winters of 1703 and 1708 the ice cover permeated as far as the Danish straits, parts of the Gulf of Bothnia and Gulf of Finland, in addition to coastal fringes in more southerly locations such as the Gulf of Riga.

* Jānis Pujāts, Archbishop of Riga, Latvia-made cardinal 1998, revealed 2001.

all suffragan dioceses under the Archbishopric of Riga.

In Livonia ( present-day Latvia and Estonia ), in 1441, 1442, 1510 and 1514, the Brotherhood of Blackheads erected a tree for the holidays in their guild houses in Reval ( now Tallinn ) and Riga.

Daugava sunset in Riga.

Daugava in Riga summer.

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.

There are three hydroelectric dams on the Daugava River – Rīgas HES just upstream from Riga or 35 km from the mouth of the river, Ķegums HPP another 35 km further up or 70 km from the mouth, and Pļaviņas HPP another 37 km upstream or 107 km from the mouth.

Krāslava, Daugavpils, Līvāni, Jēkabpils, Pļaviņas, Aizkraukle, Jaunjelgava, Lielvārde, Kegums, Ogre, Ikšķile, Salaspils and Riga.

Southern Bridge, Island Bridge, Railway Bridge, Stone Bridge and Shroud Bridge, Riga.

In the contemporary writing of the priest Henry of Livonia from Riga it is said that Bishop Theoderich was killed during the 1219 battle, when the enemy stormed his tent, thinking it was the King's tent.

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.

* Finland has an embassy in Riga.

# Wilhelm, ( 30 June 1498, Ansbach – 4 February 1563, Riga ), Archbishop of Riga in 1539-63.

Their representative at the Peace of Riga talks opted for leaving Minsk, Berdychiv, Kamianets-Podilskyi and the surrounding areas on the Soviet side of the border, not wanting to allow population shifts National Democrats considered politically undesirable, including what would be a reduced proportion of citizens who were ethnically Polish.