The Doma Cathedral survives nearly from the founding of this city, though its church of St. Peterwas destroyed by German occupation.
The Doma Cathedral survives nearly from the founding of this city, though its church of St. Peterwas destroyed by German occupation. Germans also establised the Kaiserwald concentration camphere. A 1921 treaty signed in this city governed the interwar status of the Poland-USSR border andended the Russo-Polish War of 1919. This city was where the Order of the Brothers of the Swordwere founded, by the same man who founded the city itself, Bishop (*) Albert I of Livonia. In January1991, this city was the site of confrontations between OMON and the Barricades movement, presagingindependence for its country. For 10 points, name this city where Ivars Godmanis sat as the firstpost-Soviet prime minister of Latvia.
The Doma Cathedral survives nearly from the founding of this city, though its church of St. Peterwas destroyed by German occupation.
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