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Riga

UK/ˈɹiːɡə/ US/ˈriɡʌ/ rare

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a port city on the Gulf of Riga that is the capital and largest city of Latvia; formerly a member of the Hanseatic League

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From Latvian Rīga, of disputed origin: * Possibly a form of Riege, the German name for the Rīdzene, a tributary of the Daugava river. * Possibly from rija (“threshing barn”), the j becoming a g in German (note that English geographer Richard Hakluyt calls the city Rie in 1589, and that German historian Dionysius Fabricius confirms in 1610 the origin of Rīga from rija).

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