Daugavpils, Latvia

Latvia

Daugavpils, Latvia carries 90 Bunkabop connections with 6002 other places across 20 topics, shaped most by military history, governance shifts, and sports. The city passed through Russian imperial administrations under several names, Dinaburg then Dvinsk, before becoming Daugavpils. It was earlier the capital of Polish Livonia within the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Mark Rothko, the abstract expressionist painter, was a famous Jewish resident, as was the rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk. Its connections reach heavily into neighboring Russia, Moscow, Lithuania, and Riga.

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