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| | Centropa Quarterly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | The first place of settlement for Jews in Kurland (Courland), in Western Latvia, was the district of Piltene, which for a time was subject directly to the king of Poland. |
 | | In the Duchy of Kurland itself, conditions for Jews were much harsher, but Jewish communities formed in Jelgava (Mitau), Kuldiga (Goldingen), Aizpute (Hasenpoth), Tukums, Bauska, and elsewhere. |
 | | In the eighteenth century, the entire region of present-day Latvia became part of the Tsarist Empire. |
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