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Ķekava
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Ķekava (historical ) is a city in Latvia and the center of Ķekava Municipality, in the historical region of Vidzeme. It is on the left side of the , a tributary of the Daugava River. It is also the extra-territorial center of the adjacent Ķekava Parish.
Key facts
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- City
- Settlement.official_name
- Ķekava
- Settlement.image_shield
- Ķekavas pilsētas ģerbonis.svg
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- Ķekavas baznīca.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Ķekava (Dole) Lutheran church
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- KekavasPilsetasKarogs2.jpg
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- Latvia
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Latvia
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- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Ķekava Municipality
- Settlement.established_title
- First mentioned
- Settlement.established_date
- 1435
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 9.4
- Settlement.area_total_sq_mi
- 3.63
- Settlement.area_land_km2
- 9.1
- Settlement.area_land_sq_mi
- 3.51
- Settlement.area_water_km2
- 0.3
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- Ķekava
- postal code
- 2123
- twinned administrative body
- Raseiniai District Municipality
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Ķekava (historical ) is a city in Latvia and the center of Ķekava Municipality, in the historical region of Vidzeme. It is on the left side of the , a tributary of the Daugava River. It is also the extra-territorial center of the adjacent Ķekava Parish.
== Etymology == According to the version of the etymologist , "Ķekava" is a word of Baltic origin: in ancient Indo-European languages, the root "kek" means "bend", and "av(e)" means "moisten, dehydrate, flow". This hydronym probably reflects the course of the : in the upper reaches it runs parallel to the Daugava, but in the middle reaches there are some sharp bends, turning towards the mouth of the Daugava.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ķekava” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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