Bažciems
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The entry is geolocated on the map in city, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under the topic Neighbourhoods in Jūrmala.
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- Country
- Latvia
- Located in
- Jūrmala
- Area
- 3.6
- Elevation
- 3
- Image
- Bāžciema vējdzirnavas - Windmill - panoramio.jpg
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Bāžciems is a residential area and neighbourhood of the city Jūrmala, Latvia.
== History == The Bāžciems or Bāžnieki (), belonging to the Duke of Courland, Sloka manor, formed the boundary of the Slokas town, marked by the Vecslocenes River with mills. During the Polish-Swedish War in 1605-1608 Swedes erected fortifications here. In the period of Kurzeme's economic prosperity, the Duke Jacob Kettler wanted to create a rival export port in Riga at Sloka, where glass factories and copper smelting were established. He ordered the construction of a canal linking the Slokas port to the Lielupe with the Baltic Sea through the present River Vecslocene and the Slokas lake .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bažciems” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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