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Turaida

neighbourhood of Sigulda, Latvia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ2300840 ↗
Source-derived summary

Turaida (Livonian: Toraid, German: Treiden, Treyden; meaning Thor's garden in Livonian) is a part of Sigulda in the Vidzeme Region of Latvia. Its most famous site is the Brick Gothic Turaida Castle.

In 1212, a peace treaty was signed in Turaida between the Estonian tribes and the Livonian Brothers of the Sword, the Archbishopric of Riga, the Livonians and the Latgalians.

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“Turaida” enters the record as neighbourhood of Sigulda, Latvia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Turaida, neighbourhood and Sigulda can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1212—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Turaida, neighbourhood and Sigulda.
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“Turaida” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Turaida, neighbourhood and Sigulda provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 10, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2300840. VIAF identifies the subject as 247406395. Authority coordinates are 57.183, 24.833. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1212.

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This entry incorporates text from “Turaida” 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.