Bauska, Latvia

Latvia

Bauska, Latvia connects to 1746 other places across 9 topics through 30 Bunkabop connections, with military and historical threads dominant. Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland share the most ties with Bauska, reflecting centuries of contested Baltic sovereignty. The city changed hands repeatedly, taken by the German Imperial Army in July 1915 as roughly half the population fled. Jewish residents once made up the majority of Bauska's population, including Abraham Isaac Kook, later chief rabbi of Israel. By the mid-19th century, Bauska was also one of several Latvian towns producing Riga Black Balsam.