Miķeļbāka
Sign in to saveMiķeļbāka or Miķeļtornis is the tallest lighthouse in Latvia. It is located in the village of Miķeļtornis, Tārgale Parish, Ventspils Municipality; about northeast of Ventspils.
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- World War I
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Miķeļbāka or Miķeļtornis is the tallest lighthouse in Latvia. It is located in the village of Miķeļtornis, Tārgale Parish, Ventspils Municipality; about northeast of Ventspils.
== Etymology == Legends date origins of the name to 1749, when Latvia was part of the Russian Empire and the coast was surveyed by Mikhail Ryabinin, a Russian midshipman, therefore the lighthouse later built was called Mikhailovsky mayak ( – 'Mikhail's lighthouse'). After a period, the name was Latvianised to "Miķeļbāka”. At it is the tallest lighthouse tower in the Baltic States.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Miķeļbāka” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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