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8 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇱🇻 Latvia · Hillfort
Late Iron Age Selian 9th–13th c Selonia (Baltic) Livonian horizon · Selian Baltic (Sēļi) — Selonia tribe between Latgals and Semigals
Sēlpils (Selburg, Selian *Sēlija*) — Selian tribal hillfort (Late Iron Age 9th–13th c, Livonian 1208 burning, Order stone castle 1373) on Daugava right bank 15 km south Jēkabpils opposite Staburags…
🇱🇻 Latvia · Hillfort
Late Iron Age Baltic → Livonian Crusade 1213 · Latgallian → Liv (Livs) → Livonian Order (Sword Brethren)
Aizkraukle (Ascheraden) — Latgallian → Liv hillfort and later stone castle hill (Iron Age–16th c) on Daugava right bank 82 km southeast Riga, 40 m above Daugava, ~67 m a.s.l.
🇱🇻 Latvia · Hillfort
Late Iron Age Liv 10th–12th c Daugava Livonia pre-Riga 1201 · Liv Finnic (Daugava Livs) — pre-Riga Livonia (Henry Livs)
Ķivutkalns — Liv (Finnic Livs) hillfort (Late Iron Age 10th–12th c, abandoned 1201 German Riga foundation) on Daugava right bank 7 km southeast Riga Old Town, Katlakalns promontory at tributary mouth.
🇱🇻 Latvia · Hillfort
Late Iron Age Baltic 10th–13th c Livonian Crusade horizon · Latgallian–Semigallian Baltic (Daugava chain, Henry 1208)
Asote — Latgallian–Semigallian hillfort (Late Iron Age 10th–13th c, Livonian Crusade destruction 1208/1215) on Daugava left bank near Gostiņi 10 km west Jēkabpils, Central Latvia.
🇱🇻 Latvia · Earthwork
Viking Age to Middle Ages (800–1255 CE) · Latgallian / Semigallian → Livonian Order
Aizkraukle Hillfort on the Daugava in Vidzeme, Aizkraukle Municipality, Daugava right bank, Latvia is a Viking Age to Middle Ages (800–1255 CE) Latgallian / Semigallian → Livonian Order site built…
🇱🇻 Latvia · Fortress
Medieval (1205–1701) · Latgalian then Livonian Order
Episcopal stone castle at Koknese island fortress at confluence of Daugava and Pērse (Latgalian hillfort predecessor Kukonoyse), founded 1205 by Bishop Albert after grant by King Vetseke of Koknese,…
🇱🇻 Latvia · Hillfort
Iron Age to 1239 CE (Latgalian principality) · Latgalian / Orthodox Rus'
Latgalian hillfort capital of the Orthodox principality of Jersika (Gercike) at Daugava's Tsargrad bend, a 75×100 m plateau 32 m above river with 12 m rampart, church foundations and 13th-c…
🇱🇻 Latvia · Hillfort
Late Iron Age to Medieval (900–1200 CE) · Livonian / Latgalian
Important Daugava port and hillfort at Daugmale (Daugava island) 12 km SE of Riga, with 3 ha hillfort (rampart 8 m high) plus 1st millennium trading place yielding 37,000 finds: Scandinavian…
