Latvia. The castle is located close to Viļaka town, on an island in the Viļaka Lake. Built by Archbishopric of Riga in 1342 as a wooden castle, rebuilt as...
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Viļaka (Latvian: Viļaka, pronunciation; Latgalian: Vileks; German: Marienhausen; Polish: MarienhauzRussian: Виляка, Vilyaka; Yiddish: ויליאקי, Vilyaki)...
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This is the List of castles in Latvia, which includes fortified residences of Western European conquerors built in the area of present-day Latvia before...
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Ordensburg (category Castles of the Teutonic Knights)
Estonia) - vassal castle Uexküll (Ikšķile, Latvia) Villack (Viļaka, Latvia) - a bishop castle Wack (Vao, Estonia) - vassal castle Waldau (Nizovye, Kaliningrad...
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Salaspils (Kircholm), Daugavpils (Dyneburg), Rēzekne (Rzezyca, Rositten), Viļaka (Marienhausen), Gulbene (Schwanenburg), Ludza (Lucyn), Krustpils (Kreutzburg)...
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and Livonia. The Germans, in turn, maintained their border castle of Marienhausen (now Viļaka) some 25 km (16 mi) to the west (since 1294). In 1479 Livonian...
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July the main Muscovite army of about 30,000 advanced from Pskov, taking Viļaka, Rēzekne, Daugavpils, Koknese, Gulbene, and surrounding areas. A Polish...
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Krasnogorodsky District in the south, and with Kārsava, Baltinava, and Viļaka municipalities of Latvia in the west. The area of the district is 1,111...
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