Elamur LocationsJūrmala
A settlement in Latvia.
English name
Jūrmala — Latvian official Latin-script name; retain its macron in edited English.
Other forms in use:
- Jurmala — Common diacritic-free international spelling of the Latvian name.
- Rīgas Jūrmala — Name of the predecessor municipality, 1920–1946; it covered only part of the present city.
- Rigas Jurmala — Diacritic-free form of the predecessor municipality’s Latvian name, 1920–1946.
- Rigasche Strand — Historical German name for the Riga seaside resort area; its extent need not match the present municipality.
- Рижское взморье — Historical Russian description of the Riga seaside resort area, not a Latin-script name.
- Юрмала — Russian Cyrillic form of the present name.
French name
Jūrmala — Same Latvian spelling as in English; French travel sources also omit the macron. No article forms part of the name.
Other forms in use:
- Jurmala — Common form without the Latvian macron in French travel writing.
- Iourmala — French transcription through Russian, attested in Courrier international and French geographical research; secondary to the Latvian form.
- Rigasche Strand — German historical resort-area name, relevant in French accounts of Baltic tourism before the modern city.
- Rigastrand — German historical form specifically recorded in French geographical references; its resort-area scope differs from the modern municipality.
About
Jūrmala is a Latvian seaside city stretching along the Gulf of Riga, west of Riga. Sandy beaches, pine woods and wooden resort houses are characteristic of its neighbourhoods.
Notes
The modern city includes older resort settlements such as Majori and Ķemeri; their names are not synonyms for the whole city. Historical resort-area labels have variable boundaries.
Identifiers: Wikidata Q178382 · JSON
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