Monthly Archives: July 2009
The Order of The Brothers of Sword
The Crusades are famous for their Orders a spiritual military organizations with their own social order and code of laws. The name ordo in Latin means “class”. The first orders where clerical organizations for monks. At the Early Middle Ages … Continue reading
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First Crusaders in Latvia and the founding of Riga
When Crusaders came to Latvian land they had to look for a suitable place to establish a base of operations. Since the mouth of river Daugava was a perfect place for merchants and port making they first landed at the … Continue reading
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Latvia during the Crusades- an short survey
We have taken a look on various topics of Latvian Prehistory. There could be more because Prehistory is not a small subject as we may think. But I do not consider myself as a Prehistoric expert I have done my … Continue reading
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Early Latvian statehood and civil order before the Crusades
There was and there is right now a discussion going on about the question of early Latvian statehood’s. The nationalists insist that there were real Latvian kingdoms with kings and castles. The skeptics see this as much as fantasy and … Continue reading
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The Latvian Prehistoric neighbors – early Lithuanians and Estonians
It would be unwise to exclude Latvian Baltic neighbors Lithuanians and Estonians from aspects of Latvian history because both three nations share much in common in the basis of Baltic history. Lets take a brief survey about Prehistoric aspects in … Continue reading
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