Latvian Song Festivals – the Voice of a Nation
The importance of song and dance to the people of the Baltic nations cannot be overstated. For many decades, song […]
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Baltic Lives Facebook Page
I am excited to let everyone know that I now have a Facebook page for Baltic Lives. I have created
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Nurmuiža: Manor House, Lutheran Church & Rectory
About 10 km east of the town of Talsi in northwest Latvia is the small historical village of Nurmuiža (located
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Lejas Bulāna – Latvian Village in Siberia
5,327 km from Riga lies the small Siberian village known in Latvian as Lejas Bulāna (Nizhnyaya Bulanka in Russian). This
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Kārlis Zāle – Shine Like a Star!
How to Represent Freedom In 1922, the Prime Minister of the newly independent nation of Latvia, proposed erecting a new
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Baltic Germans – Legacy of the Crusades
Founding and Early History More than seven centuries ago, groups of Teutonic knights and warrior monks (known as the Livonian
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