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Daugavpils

Also known as Dvinsk, Dünaburg

Daugavpils is the second largest city of Latvia, on the Daugava river in the south-eastern region of Latgale. Founded by the Livonian Order as Dünaburg in the 13th century, it later belonged to Poland-Lithuania and the Russian Empire, as Dvinsk. Latvian and Polish forces took it from the Red Army in January 1920, and it has a large Russian-speaking population.

Daugavpils
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Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic

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