Ikšķile
Ikšķile is a town in Ogre Municipality, in the Vidzeme region of Latvia. It was the first capital of the Roman Catholic Bishopric of Livonia, known by the German name of Üxküll.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dāvis Kļaviņš, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 4,020 residents
- Description: city in Latvia
- Also known as: “Ikshkile”, “Ikshtile”, “Ikškilā”, and “Uexküll”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of Saint Mary on Saint Meinhard Island and Saulkalne Station.
Church of Saint Mary on Saint Meinhard Island
Ruins
Photo: Hellknowz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Church of Saint Mary on Saint Meinhard Island is a ruins, which is situated 2½ km south of Ikšķile.
Saulkalne Station
Railway stop
Photo: Hellknowz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Saulkalne Station is a railway station on the Riga–Daugavpils Railway. Saulkalne Station is situated 4 km west of Ikšķile.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saulkalne and Tīnūži.
Saulkalne
Village
Photo: Kikos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saulkalne is a village, which is situated 4 km west of Ikšķile.
Tīnūži
Village
Photo: Modris Putns, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tīnūži is a village, which is situated 5 km northeast of Ikšķile.
Salaspils
Town
Salaspils is a town in the Vidzeme region of Latvia. It is the administrative centre of Salaspils Municipality. The town is situated on the northern bank of the Daugava river, 18 kilometers to the south-east of the city of Riga. Salaspils is situated 9 km west of Ikšķile.
Ikšķile
- Categories: city under municipality jurisdiction in Latvia and locality
- Location: Ikšķile, Ogre, Latvia, Baltic states, Europe
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Latitude
56.83751° or 56° 50′ 15″ northLongitude
24.49752° or 24° 29′ 51″ eastPopulation
4,020Elevation
33 metres (108 feet)United Nations Location Code
LV IKKOpen location code
9G86RFQX+22OpenStreetMap ID
node 29532674OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Ikšķile” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إيكشكيل”
- Basque: “Ikškilā”
- Basque: “Ikšķile”
- Basque: “Uexküll”
- Belarusian: “Ікшкілэ”
- Bulgarian: “Икшкиле”
- Catalan: “Ikškilā”
- Catalan: “Ikšķile”
- Catalan: “Uexküll”
- Cebuano: “Ikšķile”
- Chinese: “伊克什基莱”
- Chinese: “伊克斯基莱”
- Chinese: “伊克斯基萊”
- Chinese: “伊克施基勒”
- Czech: “Ikšķile”
- Danish: “Ikskile”
- Danish: “Ikšķile”
- Dutch: “Ikškilā”
- Dutch: “Ikšķile”
- Dutch: “Uexküll”
- Esperanto: “Ikškilā”
- Esperanto: “Ikšķile”
- Esperanto: “Ikšķiles novads”
- Esperanto: “Uexküll”
- Estonian: “Ikškile”
- Estonian: “Ikšķile”
- Estonian: “Üksküla”
- Finnish: “Ikškile”
- Finnish: “Ikšķile”
- Finnish: “Ykskylä”
- Finnish: “Ykskyle”
- French: “Ikškilā”
- French: “Ikšķile”
- French: “Uexküll”
- Galician: “Ikšķile”
- German: “Ikschkile”
- German: “Ikškilā”
- German: “Ikšķile”
- German: “Uexküll”
- Greek: “Ίκσκιλε”
- Hungarian: “Ikšķile”
- Italian: “Ikškilā”
- Italian: “Ikšķile”
- Italian: “Uexküll”
- Kazakh: “Ïkşkïle”
- Kazakh: “Икшкиле”
- Kazakh: “ىيكشكىيلە”
- Latin: “Ykescola”
- Latvian: “Ikšķile”
- Lithuanian: “Ikškilė”
- Macedonian: “Икшќиле”
- Moksha: “Икшкилэ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ikskile”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ikšķile”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Üksküla”
- Norwegian: “Ikšķile”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ikškilā”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ikšķile”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Uexküll”
- Persian: “ایکشکیل”
- Polish: “Ikskile”
- Polish: “Ikšķile”
- Romanian: “Ikšķile”
- Russian: “Икшкиле”
- Samogitian: “Ikškėlė”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ikšķile”
- Spanish: “Ikškilā”
- Spanish: “Ikšķile”
- Spanish: “Uexküll”
- Swedish: “Ikesola”
- Swedish: “Ikskile”
- Swedish: “Ikšķile”
- Swedish: “Yxkull”
- Ukrainian: “Ікшкіле”
- Upper Sorbian: “Ikšķile”
- Urdu: “ایکشکیلے”
- “Ikškėlė”
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