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2 unusual facts about Abrene district


Abrene

Abrene district, a historical district in the northeastern part of Latvia bordering on the USSR, also known prior as Jaunlatgale

Abrene district

The Balts east of a slight ridge at Viļaka were gradually Russified from the 15–16th centuries, but the philologists August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein and Kārlis Mīlenbahs, conducting linguistic field research in the area in the late 19th and early 20th century, found that many people, called "Russian Latvians" by the local Russians, still spoke the High Latvian dialect.



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