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    The 1934 Latvian coup d'état (Latvian: 1934. gada 15. maija apvērsums) known in Latvia also as the 15 May Coup (15. maija apvērsums) or Ulmanis' Coup (Ulmaņa...
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    self-coup on 12 March. 1934 Latvian coup d'état: Kārlis Ulmanis carried out a self-coup against the parliamentary system. 1934 Bulgarian coup d'état: The...
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  • The coup d'état attempt in 1934 (Lithuanian: 1934-ųjų pučas) was an attempt by voldemarininkai, supporters of the former Prime Minister Augustinas Voldemaras...
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    January 27–28, 1934. According to Daniel Blatman, there were 500 active members of the Latvian Bund in 1934. After the 1934 Latvian coup d'état the Bund aligned...
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    1934 Latvian coup d'état, as Ulmanis tried to prevent further loss of his political influence and power in the elections scheduled for October 1934....
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    a newspaper and several magazines. After the 1934 Latvian coup d'état, the Belarusian education in Latvia began to feel pressure from the officials and...
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    Latvian War of Independence (Latvian: Latvijas Neatkarības karš), sometimes called Latvia's freedom battles (Latvijas brīvības cīņas) or the Latvian War...
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      ●  Godert (Gotthard) Kettler 1559–1561 Across modern territory of Estonia and Latvia Komturei Reval Komturei Pernau Komturei Jerwen Komturei Fellin Komturei...
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    Latvia, Baltic Germans remained a politically active and organized ethnic group, although they lost some influence after the 1934 Latvian coup d'état...
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  • This is a list of coups d'état and coup attempts by country, listed in chronological order. A coup is an attempt to illegally overthrow the government...
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    by a constitutional amendment in 1998. After the 1934 Latvian coup d'état by Prime Minister of Latvia Kārlis Ulmanis, Satversme was suspended and government...
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    4th Saeima (category Political history of Latvia)
    4th Saeima was the parliament of Latvia from 3 November 1931 until the 15 May 1934 Latvian coup d'état. It was the last democratically elected Saeima...
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    The Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic (Latvian: Latvijas Sociālistiskā Padomju Republika, LSPR) was a short-lived socialist republic formed during the...
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    extant. Latvia was previously a parliamentary republic between 1921 and 1934 when the then prime minister Kārlis Ulmanis took power in a coup d'état. In June...
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    of Latvia" (Latvian: Deklarācija par Latvijas Republikas neatkarības atjaunošanu) was adopted on 4 May 1990 by the Supreme Soviet of the Latvian SSR...
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    A self-coup, also called an autocoup (from Spanish autogolpe) or coup from the top, is a form of coup d'état in which a nation's head, having come to...
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    party ceased to exist after 15 May 1934 Latvian coup d'état, when all political parties were banned following a self coup by Prime Minister Kārlis Ulmanis...
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    Latgalians (category Articles containing Latvian-language text)
    tribe. They likely spoke a variant of Latvian language, which probably became the lingua franca in present-day Latvia during the Northern Crusades due to...
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    The Latvian National Awakening (Latvian: latviešu [or latvju] tautas atmoda) refers to three distinct but ideologically related national revival movements:...
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    The Latvian Provisional Government (Latvian: Latvijas Pagaidu valdība) was formed on November 18, 1918 by the People's Council of Latvia as the interim...
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    The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup d'état (Persian: کودتای ۲۸ مرداد), was the U.S.- and British-instigated, Iranian army-led...
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  • serve in the Saeima. The party was dissolved after the 15 May 1934 Latvian coup d'état. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data...
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    Jews newly immigrated to Latvia from the Soviet Union. The Latvian Jewish community today is small but active. The ancient Latvian tribes had no connections...
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    Livonians (category CS1 Latvian-language sources (lv))
    to retake it in Latvian, which she did in the Livonian dialect of Latvian. In 2018, the Livonian Institute at the University of Latvia (Livonian: Lețmō...
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    Curonians (category Articles containing Latvian-language text)
    Kursenieki are also sometimes known as Curonians. The Curonians or Kurs (Latvian: kurši; Lithuanian: kuršiai) were a medieval Baltic tribe living on the...
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  • Pēteris Zālīte (category Latvian journalists)
    in October 1931, he retained his seat, which he held until the Saeima was dissolved following the 1934 Latvian coup d'état. 4.Saeimas vēlēšanas v t e...
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    1918 as a result of merging two councils of Latvian organizations: Latvian Provisional National Council (Latvian: Latvijas Pagaidu Nacionālā padome, LPNP)...
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    Latvia was the Parliament of the Republic of Latvia in the period from July 6, 1993 to November 6, 1995. It was the first Latvian Saeima since 1934,...
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    Swedish Livonia (category Latvia–Sweden relations)
    Denmark after the Treaty of Brömsebro) and the northern part of modern Latvia (the Vidzeme region), represented the conquest of the major part of the...
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    the Latvian State and voluntarily and forever renounces all sovereign rights (...) to the Latvian people and territory". The independence of Latvia was...
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