Riga, the third seaport of Russia and capital of Livonia, on the Dwina, 7 m. from its entrance into the Gulf of Riga (a spacious inlet on the E. side of the Baltic); has some fine mediæval buildings; is the seat of an archbishop, and is a busy and growing commercial and manufacturing town, exporting grain, timber, flax, linseed, wool, &c.
Population (circa 1900) given as 182,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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