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Eduards Ševics-Mikeļševics
Eduards is a Latvian masculine given name, which is a cognate of the English name Edward, meaning "rich guard".''Behind the Name''"Given Name Edward" Retrieved on 22 January 2016. The name may refer to: * Eduards Berklavs (1914–2004), Latvian politician *Eduards Freimanis (1919–1993), Latvian footballer *Eduards Kalniņš (1876–1964), Latvian general and politician * Eduards Smiļģis (1886–1966), Latvian actor and theatre director * Eduards Veidenbaums (1867–1892), Latvian writer * Eduards Višņakovs (born 1990), Latvian footballer See also *Eduard (name) Eduard is a male given name, which is a German and Dutch form of the English name Edward. Notable persons with that name include (in alphabetical order): *Eduard Ahrens (1803–1863), Estonian linguist and clergyman * Eduard Alayev (born 1967), I ... References {{given name Latvian masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latvia
Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the Baltic states; and is bordered by Estonia to the north, Lithuania to the south, Russia to the east, Belarus to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Sweden to the west. Latvia covers an area of , with a population of 1.9 million. The country has a temperate seasonal climate. Its capital and largest city is Riga. Latvians belong to the ethno-linguistic group of the Balts; and speak Latvian, one of the only two surviving Baltic languages. Russians are the most prominent minority in the country, at almost a quarter of the population. After centuries of Teutonic, Swedish, Polish-Lithuanian and Russian rule, which was mainly executed by the local Baltic German aristocracy, the independent R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latvian Language
Latvian ( ), also known as Lettish, is an Eastern Baltic language belonging to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken in the Baltic region. It is the language of Latvians and the official language of Latvia as well as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 1.3 million native Latvian speakers in Latvia and 100,000 abroad. Altogether, 2 million, or 80% of the population of Latvia, speak Latvian. Of those, around 1.16 million or 62% of Latvia's population use it as their primary language at home, however excluding the Latgale Region it is spoken as a native language in villages and towns by over 90% of the population. As a Baltic language, Latvian is most closely related to neighboring Lithuanian (as well as Old Prussian, an extinct Baltic language); however Latvian has followed a more rapid development. In addition, there is some disagreement whether Latgalian and Kursenieki, which are mutually intelligible with Latvian, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edijs
Edijs is a Latvian masculine given name. Edijs is often also a diminutive of the given names Edgars, Eduards, Edmunds, and Edvīns. People bearing the name Edijs include: *Edijs Brahmanis (born 1983), ice hockey player *Edijs Jurēvics Edijs Jurēvics (sometimes anglicized as Eddie Jurevics; born 18 December 1989 in Jelgava) is a Latvian rock singer, guitarist, clarinetist, pianist and songwriter. He is the lead singer of the Latvian rock band Crow Mother. He began his music c ... (born 1989), rock singer and musician with the band Crow Mother * Edijs Rinke-Leitāns (born 1991), ice hockey player References {{given name Latvian masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward
Edward is an English given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Saxon England, but the rule of the Norman and Plantagenet dynasties had effectively ended its use amongst the upper classes. The popularity of the name was revived when Henry III named his firstborn son, the future Edward I, as part of his efforts to promote a cult around Edward the Confessor, for whom Henry had a deep admiration. Variant forms The name has been adopted in the Iberian peninsula since the 15th century, due to Edward, King of Portugal, whose mother was English. The Spanish/Portuguese forms of the name are Eduardo and Duarte. Other variant forms include French Édouard, Italian Edoardo and Odoardo, German, Dutch, Czech and Romanian Eduard and Scandinavian Edvard. Short forms include Ed, Eddy, Eddie, Ted, Teddy and Ned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduards Berklavs
Eduards Berklavs (June 15, 1914 – November 25, 2004) was a Soviet and Latvian politician. Eduards Berklavs was born in Kurmāle Parish, today part of the Kuldīga Municipality. During his youth, he was active in labour and communist organizations. In 1930s, he was arrested and served a prison sentence for his communist activities. After Latvia was occupied by the Soviet Union in 1940, Berklavs, with a background as a Komsomol and Communist Party official, rose to become the deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR in 1950s. In this position, he opposed the Soviet policies of Russification, supported a larger role for Latvian language and proposed to limit immigration from other parts of the Soviet Union to Latvia. This led to him being labelled as Latvian nationalist and deposed from his position in 1959. He later wrote the Letter of 17 Latvian communists, where he accused the Soviet government of "Great Russian chauvinism" and the "forced assimilation". In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduards Freimanis
Eduards Freimanis (22 February 1919, in Liepāja - 1993) was a former Latvian football forward, the first Latvian footballer to play with a professional club in England. Playing career Freimanis started playing football in the early 1930s with the youth squad of Olimpija Liepāja. He played with the senior squad of Olimpija from 1937 to 1939, winning two Latvian Higher League titles. In 1939 he joined JKS Riga. In 1939 Freimanis was first capped for Latvia national football team and scored two goals in his very first international match (he played his second international match the next year). In 1940 when Latvia was annexed by the Soviet Union and former Latvian sports clubs were disbanded, Freimanis joined RAFS 1, later he played with Dinamo Riga. From 1941 to 1944 he played with Daugavieši and from 1942 to 1944 in the Riga selected team. In 1942 with six goals scored Freimanis was the best goalscorer in the Latvian Higher League. After World War II Freimanis ended up in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduards Kalniņš
Eduards Kalniņš (December 31, 1876 – June 28, 1964) was a Latvian general. He participated in the Russo-Japanese War and in the Latvian War of Independence. He was Minister of Defence of Latvia in 1926 and 1928 and was recipient of the Latvian military Order of Lāčplēsis, 2nd and 3rd class, and the Estonian Cross of Liberty. Biography Born in Plātere Parish (now Ogre Municipality), Kreis Riga, in the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire in a farmer's family. Graduated Plātere Elementary School and Riga City Catherine II of Russia, Catherine School. In 1894 Kalniņš joined Saint Petersburg, St. Peterburg's Artillery Academy, graduating in 1900. After graduation he was sent to the Kaunas artillery base. At the Michail Artillery Academy he passed an exam for the podporuchik rank. After that he served at the Modlin Fortress, Novogeorgievsk fortress. In 1904 he was sent to Kwantung Leased Territory, Kwantung. He participated in the Russo-Japanese War and served ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduards Smiļģis
Eduards Smiļģis (23 November 1886 – 19 April 1966) was a Latvian actor and theatre director. He became a People's Artist of the USSR in 1948. Smiļģis founded the Dailes Theatre in Riga in 1920 and was its chief director until 1965. His home in Pārdaugava is now the Eduards Smiļģis Theater Museum. Retrieved 20 November 2015. References Further reading 1886 births 1966 deaths Theatre people from Riga Latvian male stage actors Soviet male stage actors Latvian theatre directors Soviet theatre directors People's Artists of the USSR Recipients of the Order of Lenin Lenin Prize winners Stalin Prize winners 20th-century Latvian male actors {{Latvia-bio-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduards Veidenbaums
Eduards Veidenbaums (Glāznieki, Priekuļi parish, 3 October 1867 — Kalāči, Mūrmuiža parish, 24 May 1892) was a Latvian poet and translator. Biography Eduards Veidenbaums was born at the Glāznieki farmstead in the Priekuļi parish (now territory of Cēsis). In 1872 his family moved to Kālāči in the Mūrmuiža parish. In 1887 after finishing Riga governorate gymnasium, Veidenbaums started to study law at the University of Tartu. In May 1892 he died of tuberculosis after five months' illness. Bibliography Poetry *''Dzejas'' (1896) *''Dzejas'' (London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ... 1900) Complete works *''Kopoti raksti''. 1—2. R.: LVI, (1961) *''Raksti'' (1926) *''Kopoti raksti''. 1—6 (1907–1909) Selections *''Dzejas''. R.: Nordik (2005) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduards Višņakovs
Eduards Višņakovs (born 10 May 1990) is a Latvian footballer who plays as a forward for Latvian Higher League side SK Super Nova. Club career Early career Born in Riga, as a youth player Višņakovs played for his local club JFC Skonto till 2003, when he moved to Daugava Rīga. Being taken to the first team in 2008, Višņakovs scored 30 goals in 30 Latvian First League appearances, becoming the top scorer of the league and helping his team clinch an automatic promotion to the Latvian Higher League. He was also named the league's best player in a ceremony on 22 December 2008. FK Ventspils Before the start of the 2009 Latvian Higher League season Višņakovs refused to extend his contract with Daugava, joining that time Latvian champions FK Ventspils. Right after joining Višņakovs was given out on loan to the league's newcomers FC Tranzit in order to get more experience. During this loan spell Višņakovs scored 3 goals in 19 league matches, returning from loan in August ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduard (name)
Eduard is a male given name, which is a German and Dutch form of the English name Edward. Notable persons with that name include (in alphabetical order): *Eduard Ahrens (1803–1863), Estonian linguist and clergyman * Eduard Alayev (born 1967), Israeli Olympic sport shooter *Eduard Georg Aule (1878–1947), Estonian banker and politician *Eduard Badaluta (born 1996), Romanian model, face model for video game protagonist Leon S. Kennedy in the 2019 remake of Resident Evil 2 * Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck (1815–1898), Prussian statesman *Eduard Buchner (1860–1917), German chemist and zymologist *Eduard Caudella (1841–1924), Romanian opera composer, violinist, conductor, teacher and critic *Eduard Čech (1893–1960), Czech mathematician *Eduard Clam-Gallas (1805–1891), Austrian general *Eduard Cristian Zimmermann (born 1983), Romanian footballer *Eduard Dietl (1890–1944), German World War II general * Eduard Einstein (1910–1965), second son of physicist Albert Eins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
