Iecava, Latvia

Latvia

Iecava, Latvia shares 18 connections with 3536 other places across 6 topics, concentrated in history and military themes. First documented in 1492 in a Livonian Order record about peasant duties, the town carries traces of Baltic, Russian, and German influence. The Soviet occupation of 1940 brought deportations that touched the parish directly, with a second wave in 1949. A government thread links Iecava to Sweden: former Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt's great-great-grandmother was a maid from the town, then known as Eckau.

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