This portal was created by Līvõ Kultūr sidām (The Livonian Culture Centre) and offers a wide range of information on the Livonians, their culture, language, and history. Here you can discover the places the Livonians have lived, their cultural monuments, the location of their most important archives, and also about new Livonian-related events and exhibitions. You can learn about Livonian traditional and contemporary culture as well as become acquainted with their community organisations and most important personalities. The UL Livonian Institute section contains information about this institution as well as Livonian-Estonian-Latvian dictionary which is updated on an ongoing basis and which is supplemented with word forms and data from the Livonian language corpus. This section also contains the Livonian place name list, a list of Livonian borrowings in Latvian, and other resources for learning about and studying Livonian. The Library section contains a collection of articles, links, and videos on Livonian topics grouped by category.
We wish you success learning about Livonian culture!
2004 – in the Liv farmstead, Ethnographic Open Air Museum, a collection of ethnographic and household items donated by Poulīn Kļaviņa was put on display.
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1999 – a Liv-Latvian-English Phrasebook by Valda Šuvcāne and Ieva Ernštreite was presented.
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1823 – in Vaid village, Lōz homestead, Nikā Polmaņ, a Liv culture activist and teacher was born. Died in 1903.
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1851 – Axel Olai Heikel, one of the founders of the Finno-Ugric ethnography was born. Died in 1924.
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1948 – Gundega Blumberga, a journalist, one of the founders of the Liv Culture Centre and the first editor of the renewed monthly periodical Līvli was born.
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