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Daugavpils Ice Arena

ice arena in Daugavpils, Latvia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ5227888 ↗
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Daugavpils Ice Arena is an ice arena in Daugavpils, Latvia. The construction works were started in early 1999, but the arena was opened already on 16 November 1999. There are 1234 seats and 750 standing places. It is the home arena for HK Dinaburga, which is playing in the Latvian Hockey Higher League.

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“Daugavpils Ice Arena” enters the record as ice arena in Daugavpils, Latvia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Daugavpils, Arena and arena can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5227888. Authority coordinates are 55.872, 26.530. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1999 and 1234.

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This entry incorporates text from “Daugavpils Ice Arena” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.