What is an interesting fact about Latvia?
Latvian is one of oldest European languages Latvian is one of the most archaic/oldest European languages and it has conserved many features of the over 5,000 year-old Proto-Indo-European, which is the ancestral language to all European languages.
What language does Latvia speak?
Latvian
Latvia/Official languages
How Latvia got its name?
Etymology. The name Latvija is derived from the name of the ancient Latgalians, one of four Indo-European Baltic tribes (along with Couronians, Selonians and Semigallians), which formed the ethnic core of modern Latvians together with the Finnic Livonians.
What sport is Latvia good at?
Hockey is the main and national sport in Latvia. Talented players appear every year, and a fair few of them have made it to the world’s most prominent hockey leagues, including the hockey Mecca that is the NHL.
What do they eat in Latvia?
Eat & Drink. Wild mushrooms, the royal catfish, venison dishes, birch juice, sweet strawberries and sour cherries, excellent honey, rhubarb wine and beer brewed by local masters – all this and much more is waiting for you in Latvia.
What is the culture of Latvia?
Traditional Latvian culture is very lovable. It resembles a Nordic culture in some way. It respects nature very much, they have sauna-culture, cross-country skiing as a national sport and they go picking mushrooms and berries in the forest when it is the season.
What are the people of Latvia called?
Latvia’s neighbours to the east are the countries Russia and Belarus. Latvia is split into four parts called Kurzeme, Vidzeme, Zemgale, and Latgale. People from Latvia are called Latvians.
What is the history of Latvia?
The history of Latvia began around 9000 BC with the end of the last glacial period in northern Europe. Ancient Baltic peoples arrived in the area during the second millennium BC, and four distinct tribal realms in Latvia’s territory were identifiable towards the end of the first millennium AD.