Facts About Ventspils
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Ventspils was historically known as Windau in German.
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In 2004, Ventspils was a host city for a multi-national naval exercise called Baltic Operations XXXIII.
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Ventspils is twinned with: Stralsund, Germany; Lorient, France; Polatsk and Navapolatsk, Belarus; Ningbo, China & Västervik, Sweden.
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Ventspils (Windau) is one of the starting towns of the State of the Teutonic Order in the turn-based strategy game Medieval II: Total War: Kingdoms, release on 28 August 2007.
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Ventspils is a city in northwestern Latvia in the historical Courland region of Latvia,
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Every winter Ventspils hosts the awarding ceremony of the Latvian Radio broadcast Musical Bank and the televised national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest.
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Ventspils received its town rights in 1378.
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The city’s name literally means “castle on the Venta”.
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Ventspils is the sixth-largest city in Lativa.
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The population of Ventspils is 34,377, as of 2019.