Salaspils
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266px|right|thumb|The Battle of Kircholm monument at Salaspils. In 1605 joint Polish–Lithuanian–Courland armies defeated an invading Swedish army here. thumb|Battle of Kircholm Stone (other memorial) in Salaspils, Latvia thumb|Salaspils Council
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Salaspils
- Settlement.other_name
- Kircholm, Kerkolm
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_shield
- Salaspils COA.svg
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Salaspils-station.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Salaspils Railway Station in 2008
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Salaspils Municipality
- Settlement.established_title
- Town rights
- Settlement.established_date
- 1993
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Latvia
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- above
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Latvia
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Raivis Anspaks
- Settlement.blank_name_sec1
- Number of city council members
- Settlement.blank_info_sec1
- 13
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Salaspils
- Country
- Tsardom of Russia
- Located in
- Livonia Governorate
- Official language
- Latvian
- Population
- 17865
- Area
- 14.73
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Body of water
- Daugava
- Capital of
- Salaspils Municipality
- Official website
- www.salaspils.lv
- Image
- Salaspils - ogre11 - Panoramio.jpg
- Significant event
- Battle of Kircholm
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- Commons category
- Salaspils
- twinned administrative body
- Finspång Municipality
- topic's main category
- Category:Salaspils
- time of earliest written record
- 1186-00-00
- postal code
- LV-2169
- P6482
- Salaspils
- native label
- Salaspils
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- History
- World War II
- City growth in the 1950s and 1960s
- Demographics
- Geography
- The National Botanical Gardens
- Nuclear reactor
- Twin towns – sister cities
- Gallery
- See also
- References
266px|right|thumb|The Battle of Kircholm monument at Salaspils. In 1605 joint Polish–Lithuanian–Courland armies defeated an invading Swedish army here. thumb|Battle of Kircholm Stone (other memorial) in Salaspils, Latvia thumb|Salaspils Council
Salaspils (; ; ) (literally: "island castle") is a town in the Vidzeme region of Latvia. It is the administrative centre of Salaspils Municipality. The town is situated on the northern bank of the Daugava river, 18 kilometers to the south-east of the city of Riga.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Salaspils” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (8)
On the map
3 mapped locations