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Zemgale the ancient trading center on the Daugava already knew the Vikings. In the 13th Century was the Archbishop of Riga, a castle on the river bank to balance the right, in its protection and shade, the city Krustpils (Kreuzburg) developed. Jēkabpils on the shore opposite was only in the 17th Century - from a settlement of Orthodox Old Believers, before the soldiers of the Czar of Russia had fled. And only two cities merged in 1962 to the present Jēkabpils (28 000 Ew.), In Latvia as an imp...
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