Mūša
The Mūša is a river in Northern Lithuania and Southern Latvia. At its confluence with the river Nemunėlis in Latvia, near the city of Bauska, the river Lielupė is formed.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Lithuania and Latvia
- Also known as: “Mūša River” and “Musha”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bauska castle museum and St. George’s Church, Bauska.
Bauska castle museum
Museum
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Bauska Castle is a complex consisting of the ruins of an earlier castle and a later palace on the outskirts of the Latvian city of Bauska. While originally a hill fort, the Livonian branch of the Teutonic Knights built the castle in the fifteenth century, the palace was added in the sixteenth century, and restoration began in the nineteenth century.
St. George’s Church, Bauska
Church
Photo: Laima Gūtmane (simka…, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. George's Church is a Latvian Orthodox church in Bauska, Latvia. In 1876 czarist authorities gifted a plot of land to the local Orthodox community which was established in 1856 and by 1881 numbered 95 people.
Bauska Church of the Holy Spirit
Church
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Church of the Holy Spirit is a Lutheran church and the oldest existing building in Bauska, Latvia. Built between 1591 and 1594 for the needs of the city's Baltic German population.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bauska and Mežotne.
Bauska
Photo: Daarznieks, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bauska is a town in Zemgale, 66 km from Riga and 20 km from the Lithuanian border, at the confluence of the Mūsa and Mēmele rivers where they form the Lielupe river.
Mežotne
Village
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Mežotne is a village in the Mežotne Parish of Bauska Municipality in the Semigallia region of Latvia, 10 km west of Bauska and 40 km south of the capital of Latvia, Riga. It is located on the left bank of the Lielupe river near the Lithuanian border. Mežotne is situated 8 km northwest of Mūša.
Pilsrundāle
Village
Photo: Laima Gūtmane (simka…, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pilsrundāle is a village in the Rundāle Parish of Bauska Municipality in the Semigallia region of Latvia, approximately 40 kilometers from Jelgava. Pilsrundāle had 862 residents as of 2006. Rundāle Palace is located in Pilsrundāle. Pilsrundāle is situated 9 km west of Mūša.
Mūša
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Bauska Municipality, Latvia, Baltic states, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Mūša” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Mūša”
- Belarusian: “Муса (рака)”
- Belarusian: “Муса”
- Bulgarian: “Муша”
- Catalan: “Mūša”
- Cebuano: “Mūšia”
- Cebuano: “Reka Muzha”
- Chinese: “穆沙河”
- Chuvash: “Муса”
- Czech: “Mūša-Lielupe”
- Czech: “Mūša-Lielupė”
- Czech: “Mūsa”
- Czech: “Mūša”
- Dutch: “Mūša”
- Estonian: “Mūsa jõgi”
- Estonian: “Mūsa”
- Estonian: “Mūša”
- French: “Musa”
- French: “rivière Musa”
- French: “Rivière Mūsa”
- Georgian: “მუშა”
- German: “Mūsa”
- German: “Mūša”
- Irish: “Mūša”
- Italian: “Mūsa”
- Italian: “Mūša”
- Japanese: “ムーシャ川”
- Korean: “무샤강”
- Latin: “Missa”
- Latvian: “Mūsa”
- Latvian: “Mūša”
- Lithuanian: “Mūša”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mūsa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mūša”
- Persian: “رودخانه موسا”
- Persian: “موشا”
- Polish: “Musza”
- Russian: “Муса”
- Russian: “Мусса”
- Russian: “Муша”
- Samogitian: “Mūša”
- Scots: “Mūša”
- Spanish: “Muša”
- Spanish: “Mūsa”
- Spanish: “Mūša”
- Spanish: “Rio Musa”
- Spanish: “Rio Muša”
- Spanish: “Rio Mūsa”
- Spanish: “Rio Mūša”
- Spanish: “Río Musa”
- Spanish: “Río Muša”
- Spanish: “Río Mūsa”
- Spanish: “Río Mūša”
- Swedish: “Mūša”
- Tajik: “Дарёи Мусо”
- Tajik: “Муса”
- Turkish: “Musa Nehri”
- Turkish: “Mūsa Nehri”
- Turkish: “Mūša Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Муса”
- “Mūša”
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