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Most remembered as the former capital of the Duchy of Courland, Jelgava is a simple town found in central Latvia and is the biggest town in Semigallia.

The city is located on a fertile plain and it is surrounded by a canal which is called as Jacob’s Channel that occupies the locations of former ramparts. Jelgava is a railway center that is an important market for grain and also timber. Its name is derived from the Livonian word jelgab which simply means “low place.” The city also serves as a host to Jelgava air base.

It has regular broad streets that are lined with the beautiful mansions of the Baltic German nobility who had lived at the capital of Courland. Jelgava also has other landmarks which are visited by many tourists such as the Baroque church of St. Anne, the tower of the destroyed Trinity church, and the marvelous neoclassical structures, the Villa Medema and the magnificent Academia Petrina.

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