Rīga

Rīga

1. Alternative form of Riga: the capital city of Latvia.
   • 2003, Silvija Grosa, translated by Kārlis Streips, “Introduction”, in Art Nouveau in Rīga: Taking a Walk Through Rīga in the Art Nouveau Era, [Riga]: Jumava, →ISBN, page 3, column 1:

     The architecture of Rīga has changed many times over the course of the centuries, and the city now reflects these changes.

   • 2004 April, Jonathan Bousfield, “Western Latvia”, in The Rough Guide to the Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania, London; New York, N.Y.: Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 231:

     Much of western Latvia is within day-trip distance of Rīga.

   • 2010 June 16, Ojārs Kalniņš, “To Be Continued (A Diplomatic Success Story)”, in Latvian Institute‎^[1], Riga: Latvian Institute, archived from the original on 19 June 2010:

     But the Foreign Ministry’s new exhibit focuses on the years of 1990 – 1991, when a new generation of inexperienced but decidedly determined diplomats in Rīga began to rebuild Latvia’s diplomatic corps and re-establish Latvia’s foreign relations with the rest of the world.

   • 2013, “Rīga, Latvia”, in Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel 2014: The Best Trends, Destinations, Journeys & Experiences for the Upcoming Year, 5th edition, Melbourne, Vic.: Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 107:

     Sitting at the crossroads of the great empires that wrote the pages of Europe’s elaborate history, Rīga was – for centuries – a strategic linchpin in the annexation of important lands, until it was smothered into obscurity when the Iron Curtain fell.

The origin of the word Rīga is disputed. Some claim that it is borrowed from Lithuanian ringą, referring to the looped shape of the ancient natural harbor formed by the tributary loop of the Daugava river. Others consider it a form of Riege, the German name of the Rīdzene, a tributary of the Daugava river. Others yet derive it from rija (“threshing barn”), the j becoming a g in German (note that English geographer Richard Hakluyt calls the city Rie in 1589, and that German historian Dionysius Fabricius confirms in 1610 the origin of Rīga from rija).

• IPA^(key): [ɾīːɡa]

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Rīga f (4th declension)

1. Riga (the capital city of Latvia)

   Rīgas vēsturiskais centrs ― the historic center of Riga

   Rīgas dzelzceļa stacija ― Riga railway station

   Rīga ir galvenais industriālais, darījumu, kultūras, sporta un finanšu centrs Baltijā ― Riga is the main industrial, business, cultural, sports and financial center in the Baltics

• rīdzinieks, rīdziniece

• → Belarusian: Ры́га (Rýha), Ры́ґа (Rýga) — Taraškievica orthography, also
• → English: Riga
• → Lithuanian: Ryga
• → Norwegian Bokmål: Riga
• → Polish: Ryga
• → Russian: Ри́га (Ríga)
• → Ukrainian: Ри́га (Rýha), Ри́ґа (Rýga)