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Dom Church Square, Rīga Latvia A view of a tree by Ķīšezers Lake, Rīga Latvia Latvian sunflower Kronvalda Park, Rīga, Latvia, with a view of Latvia's Freedom Monument No. 13 Alberta Street, one of Rīga's Jugenstil restored architectural treasures Jaunzems' manor devastated in WWI, Latvia A old homestead interior at the Open-Air Ethnographic Museum, Rīga, Latvia Facsimile page with image of industrious Latvians in Esslingen post-WWII Displaced Person camp Dairy products ("Milk") storefront, Soviet Rīga, Latvia Interior ceiling, Rundāle Palace, Latvia Fallen warriors in eternal slumber, Brethren Cemetery, Rīga, Latvia

Latvia is one of the three Baltic states, sandwiched between sisters Estonia and Lithuania, Russia, Belarus, and the Baltic Sea. Steeped in ancient traditions, it is a domain of lush forests and river valleys, sandy coastlines, and medieval architecture. Home to a culture that migrated westward to settle along the Baltic Sea, where it as has thrived for four millennia.

The Crusades, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Poland-Lithuania, France, and Russia have all swept over Latvia  — a touchstone of European geopolitics and history.

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Working on a couple of reference digitizing projects. In the meantime we AI-reprocessed the album of photos from the DP-era YMCA-YWCA children's home at Hahnenklee. latvians.com/en/Exile/DPcamps/level-550-ywca-nursery.ssi Facebook 2026 Aug 06
Estonian economist Villibald Raud's 1943 monograph, "The Baltic States as a British Market in the Past and Future," looks ahead to post-WWII rebuilding and recovery. From how many tractors to replace how many horses to dealing with the reality of war-time population loss, he frames the Baltic States as a counterintuitively significant—given their size—historical and projected market for British industry. His study consolidates economic statistics across all three Baltic economies for a rare integrated portrait. Facsimile and transcription. latvians.com/index.php?en/CFBH/BaltStatesBritMkt/bsbm-000-synopsis.ssi Facebook 2026 Feb 26
You can now read the "Fourth Letter" in a 17th century series about Livonia, tracing the Teutonic Order's humble beginnings from a charitable hospital founded by Germans in Jerusalem during the Crusades to its formal establishment as a military knightly order in 1191, and highlighting the leadership of its fourth Grand Master, Hermann von Salza, and conquest of Prussia and Livonia. We've also improved our page-bottom chronological browsing to encourage you to explore our timeline. latvians.com/index.php?en/CFBH/AccountLivonia/acctliv-100-letter04.ssi Facebook 2026 Feb 22
Estonian economist Villibald Raud's 1943 monograph, "The Baltic States as a British Market in the Past and Future," looks ahead to post-WWII rebuilding and recovery. From how many tractors to replace how many horses to dealing with the reality of war-time population loss, he frames the Baltic States as a counterintuitively significant—given their size—historical and projected market for British industry. His study consolidates economic statistics across all three Baltic economies for a rare integrated portrait. Facsimile and transcription. latvians.com/index.php?en/CFBH/BaltStatesBritMkt/bsbm-000-synopsis.ssi Facebook 2026 Feb 26
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