Koknese, Latvia

Latvia

Koknese, Latvia shares 40 connections with 5225 other places across 9 topics, weighted toward medieval history and military conflict. Its connections run through Lithuania, Sweden, and Riga, reflecting centuries of competing territorial claims along the Daugava River. During the Russo-Swedish War of 1656–1658, Russian forces seized Koknese and renamed it Tsarevich-Dmitriev. Before that, it passed through the Principality of Polotsk, the Livonian Brothers of the Sword, and repeated Polish-Swedish contests in the 17th century.

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