Grobiņa (Latvia)
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Information for Authority record
Name (Hebrew)
גרובינה (לטביה)
Name (Latin)
Grobiņa (Latvia)
Other forms of name
Grobin (Latvia)
Grobinya (Latvia)
Coordinates
21.1675 21.1675 56.5375 56.5375 (gooearth )
Associated country
Latvia
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- The archaeological monuments of Grobiņa, 1995.
- Geonet on WWW, 04-23-97(Grobiņa; ppl.; variants: Grobin, Grobinya; 56p0s33ʹN, 21p0s10ʹE)
Wikipedia description:
Grobiņa (; German: Grobin) is a town in South Kurzeme Municipality in the Courland region of Latvia, eleven kilometers east of Liepāja. It was founded by the Teutonic Knights in the 13th century. Some ruins of their Grobina castle are still visible. The town was given its charter in 1695. During the Early Middle Ages, Grobiņa (or Grobin) was the most important political centre on the territory of Latvia. There was a centre of Scandinavian settlement on the Baltic Sea, comparable in many ways to Hedeby and Birka but probably predating them both. About 3,000 surviving burial mounds contain the most impressive remains of the Vendel Age in Northern Europe.
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