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Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic

Variant of Latvia

Latvia definition

Lat·via (lat′vē ə)

country in N Europe, on the Baltic Sea: from 1940 to 1991 it was a republic of the U.S.S.R.: 24,595 sq mi (63,701 sq km); pop. 2,606,000; cap. Riga
formerly, Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic

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