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Valters Un Rapa
Grāmatu Nams Valters un Rapa (Book House Valters and Rapa) is a bookstore and publishing house in Riga, Latvia. History In 1912, Janis Rapa together with the bibliophile Arturs Valters founded a limited partnership "A. Valters, J. Rapa and Company", a bookstore to serve Latvian intellectuals needs. In 1920 the limited partnership was changed to Joint Stock Company and went to new premises in 11 Teatra St. In 1924 Arturs Valters died, and in 1925 J. Grins came to the assistance of J. Rapa. Following the Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940, the property owned by the Joint Stock Company was nationalized and operation of the company was stopped. There was established the Publishing House of the State Printing and Publishing Department and its Central bookshop on the ground of the company. On May 10, 1996, Valters un Rapa was re-established as a Joint-stock company. On October 28 of the same year, Valters un Rapa published the first book of the re-established joint Stock Company ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riga
Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Baltic Sea. Riga's territory covers and lies above sea level, on a flat and sandy plain. Riga was founded in 1201 and is a former Hanseatic League member. Riga's historical centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, noted for its Art Nouveau/Jugendstil architecture and 19th century wooden architecture. Riga was the European Capital of Culture in 2014, along with Umeå in Sweden. Riga hosted the 2006 NATO Summit, the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, the 2006 IIHF Men's World Ice Hockey Championships, 2013 World Women's Curling Championship and the 2021 IIHF World Championship. It is home to the European Union's office of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC). In 2017, it was named the European Region of Gastronomy. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
