Šampēteris
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- Latvia
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- Riga
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Šampēteris is an old Riga neighbourhood on the Pārdaugava side of the Daugava river, with many houses built in the first part of 20th century still surviving.
==Etymology== The area's name comes from the French word champêtre, which means 'rural, pastoral'.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Šampēteris” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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