Zilupe
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Zilupe (Latgalian: Sīnuoja, from sīna – 'border'; German: Rosenau, ) is a town in Ludza Municipality, in the Latgale region of Latvia, by the Zilupe River, on the border with Russia. The population in 2020 was 1,343. Zilupe's railway station is the final station for the Riga-Zilupe train route, which is one of the longest passenger rail routes in Latvia. The town first began to take shape during construction of the Ventspils-Moscow railway line in 1900, the station taking the name Rozenova, after the former landowner. Near the station, a small settlement of merchants and railroad workers forme
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- Zilupe
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- Town
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- Roman Catholic church in Zilupe
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- Municipality
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- Ludza Municipality
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- 1931
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- above
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- 250
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- Official name
- Zilupe
- Population
- 1232
- Area
- 4.58
- Elevation
- 120
- Official website
- www.zilupe.lv
- Image
- Zilupes katoļu baznīca 2000-07-22.jpg
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- Commons category
- Zilupe
- postal code
- LV-5751
- native label
- Zilupe
- inception
- 1900-00-00
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Zilupe (Latgalian: Sīnuoja, from sīna – 'border'; German: Rosenau, ) is a town in Ludza Municipality, in the Latgale region of Latvia, by the Zilupe River, on the border with Russia. The population in 2020 was 1,343. Zilupe's railway station is the final station for the Riga-Zilupe train route, which is one of the longest passenger rail routes in Latvia. The town first began to take shape during construction of the Ventspils-Moscow railway line in 1900, the station taking the name Rozenova, after the former landowner. Near the station, a small settlement of merchants and railroad workers formed. In 1908 there was already a police department, school and post office in Rozenova.
Further development of settlement was interrupted by the First World War. In 1918 the railway bridge over Zilupe River was destroyed. From 1918 until 1920 Rozenova like all of Eastern Latvia was under Soviet rule. In January 1920 Rozenova was liberated by the Latvian army in the final stage of the Latvian War of Independence.
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