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Monday, July 18, 2005
Latvia
Latvia is a country of north-central Europe on the Baltic Sea. The original inhabitants, the Letts, were conquered and Christianized in the 13th century by German knights, the Livonian Brothers of the Sword, who ruled the area until 1561, when it passed to Poland. Under Russian control from the 18th century, Lativia became independant after World War I but was annexed in 1940 by the USSR and known as the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic until it declared its independance in 1990. Riga is the capital. Population is about 2,548,000.
One of the first bmx races ever held in the Soviet Union was held in the republic of Latvia in 1988.
posted by Cord # 3:43 pm 
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