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Capital and port of Latvian Republic, USSR;
population (1987) 900,000. A member of the
Hanseatic League from 1282, Riga has belonged
in turn to Poland 1582, Sweden 1621, and
Russia 1710. It was the capital of
independent Latvia 1918-40 and was occupied
by Germany 1941-44, before being annexed by
the USSR.