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castle built alongside the
Venta River.
Ventspils was
historically known as
Windau in German. It had a
Russian name from the time of the
Russian Empire, called...
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Adolf Otto
Reinhold Windaus (German pronunciation: [ˈaːdɔlf ˈvɪndaʊs] ; 25
December 1876 – 9 June 1959) was a
German chemist who won a
Nobel Prize in...
- of 78,877
inhabitants as of 2021 and
administers six villages:
Ghinda (
Windau; Vinda), Sărata (Salz; Sófalva),
Sigmir (Schönbirk; Szépnyír), Slătinița...
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Ventspils county (Latvian:
Ventspils apriņķis, German:
Kreis Windau, Russian: Виндавскій уѣздъ, romanized: Vindavskiy uyezd) was a
historic county of the...
- one of the
largest merchant fleets in Europe, with its main
harbours in
Windau (today Ventspils), and
Libau (today Liepāja). His
fleet made
voyages to...
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Bergson Ferdinand Buisson;
Ludwig Quidde 1928 Owen
Willans Richardson Adolf Windaus Charles Nicolle Sigrid Undset None 1929
Louis de
Broglie Arthur Harden;...
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incorporated into the
territory of the
province as the
district of
Windau (Hauptmannschaft
Windau) and the
district of
Hasenpoth (Hauptmannschaft Hasenpoth)....
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effort to
identify the
dietary deficiency in
children with rickets.
Adolf Windaus received the
Nobel Prize in
Chemistry in 1928 for his work on the constitution...
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Komturei Bauske Komturei Mitau Komturei Doblen Komturei Goldingen Komturei Windau Urban,
William (2005). The
Teutonic Knights: A
Military History. pp. 259–273...
- present-day
Latvia (Kurzeme and Zemgale);
major towns:
Mitau (Jelgava),
Windau (Ventspils),
Libau (Liepāja). Ösel (the
island of Saaremaa)
belonging to...
