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  • proper noun A town in central Latvia, the largest town in Semigallia.

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Examples

  • He'd gone on peacetime holiday to the beaches of northern Jelgava.

    Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

  • The Algarvians hadn't built this prison, or the others much like it scattered over the face of Jelgava - Jelgavan kings had done that, to keep their own subjects in line.

    Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

  • "If they strike at Jelgava," he said, "that makes it harder for the Algarvians to pull men out of our kingdom and send them to Unkerlant."

    Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

  • Instead, they twisted every which way, as jagged as the skyline of the Bratanu Mountains on the border between Jelgava and Algarve.

    Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

  • The three companies plucked from occupation duty in Jelgava had suffered particularly hard.

    Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

  • He had no idea in what part of Jelgava the prison was.

    Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

  • Until then, Algarve had gone from one triumph to another: over Forthweg, over Sibiu, over Valmiera, over Jelgava.

    Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

  • Sabrino wondered if they included regiments and brigades plucked from occupation duty in Valmiera or Jelgava and carried across a good stretch of Derlavai by ley-line caravan so they could get into this fight.

    Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

  • His interrogator seemed to think it meant going on with his job no matter whom it benefited: that the work was an end in itself, not a means to serving Jelgava.

    Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

  • Such things had been against the law in Valmiera, and still were, she'd heard, in Jelgava.

    Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

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