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Irbene

Irbene is a ghost town in Ance parish, northwestern . In 1971, the Soviet Union established a secret radar center "Звезда" and built a settlement for military officers and their families, naming it Irbene because of nearby river Irbe.
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lūžņa and Pissen.

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is a populated place in Tārgale parish, Ventspils municipality, Latvia, one of the twelve Livonian villages on the Livonian coast. was a long fishing hamlet at the coast of the Baltic Sea about 30 kilometers from in the direction of . is situated 3½ km north of Irbene.

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Miķeļtornis is a populated place in the Tārgale Parish of in the region of . It is one of the twelve Livonian villages on the Livonian Coast. is situated 8 km northeast of Irbene.

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is a village, which is situated 9 km west of Irbene.

Irbene

Latitude
57.56404° or 57° 33′ 51″ north
Longitude
21.86353° or 21° 51′ 49″ east
Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)
Open location code
9G93HV77+JC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 521333095
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
13148328
Wiki­data ID
Q20504374
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Ukrainian—“Irbene” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “Irbene”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اربين”
  • Estonian: “Irbene”
  • Finnish: “Irbene”
  • French: “Irbene”
  • German: “Irbene”
  • Hungarian: “Irbene”
  • Indonesian: “Irbene”
  • Japanese: “イルベネ”
  • Japanese: “リーベン (ラトビア)”
  • Latvian: “Irbene”
  • Lithuanian: “Irbenė”
  • Turkish: “Irbene”
  • Ukrainian: “Ірбене”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Irbene”. Photo: Powermelon, CC BY-SA 3.0.