Principality of Jersika
The Principality of Jersika was a medieval Latgalian principality in the east of modern-day Latvia, and one of the largest medieval states in Latvia before the Northern Crusades.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village
- Description: Latgalian principality (10th century–1239)
- Also known as: “Ierzika”, “Jersika Principality”, “Jerzika”, “Yersika”, and “Yersiki”
Principality of Jersika
- Categories: principality and locality
- Location: Preiļi Municipality, Latvia, Baltic states, Europe
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Latitude
56.25455° or 56° 15′ 16″ northLongitude
26.20547° or 26° 12′ 20″ eastElevation
95 metres (312 feet)Open location code
9G887634+R5OpenStreetMap ID
node 2069386933OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Slovenian—“Principality of Jersika” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Герсікскае княства”
- Belarusian: “Герсіцкае княства”
- Belarusian: “Герцыке”
- Belarusian: “Герцыкскае княства”
- Belarusian: “князь герцыкскі”
- Chinese: “杰西卡公国”
- Danish: “Jersika”
- Dutch: “Jersika”
- Dutch: “Vorstendom Jersika”
- Estonian: “Jersika vürstiriik”
- French: “Principauté de Jersika”
- German: “Fürstentum Jersika”
- German: “Jersika”
- Ido: “Princolando di Jersika”
- Italian: “Principato di Jersika”
- Japanese: “ゲルツィケ公国”
- Latgalian: “Gersika”
- Latvian: “Jersika”
- Latvian: “Jersikas valsts”
- Latvian: “Letija”
- Lithuanian: “Jersika”
- Lithuanian: “Jersikos kunigaikštystė”
- Russian: “Герсикское княжество”
- Russian: “Герцикское княжество”
- Russian: “Ерсикское княжество”
- Serbian: “Кнежевина Јерсика”
- Slovenian: “Kneževina Jersika”
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