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Liepāja

Also known as Libau

Liepāja, German Libau, is a port city on the Baltic coast of western Latvia. Long a town of the Duchy of Courland, it passed to Russia in 1795 and grew into an important ice-free port and naval base with heavy emigrant traffic. In 1919 it briefly served as the seat of the Latvian national government. It is Latvia's third-largest city.

Liepāja
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Governorate of CourlandLatvian Socialist Soviet Republic

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Liepāja. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/liepaja
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