Valka

Also known as Walk

Valka (; ; ) is a town and the centre of Valka Municipality in the Vidzeme region of Latvia, on the border with Estonia along both banks of the river Pedele.

Key facts

Settlement.name: Valka
Settlement.settlement_type: Town
Settlement.image_shield: Coat of Arms of Valka.svg
Settlement.shield_size: 75px
Settlement.image_flag: Flag_of_Valka.svg
Settlement.flag_size: 125px
Settlement.image_skyline: Valkas baznīca.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Lugaži Lutheran Church in Valka.
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Valka Municipality
Settlement.established_title: Town rights
Settlement.established_date: 1584
Settlement.pushpin_map: Latvia
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: above
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize: 300
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Latvia
Settlement.motto: 1 pilsēta, 2 valstis (1 city, 2 countries)

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Valka (; ; ) is a town and the centre of Valka Municipality in the Vidzeme region of Latvia, on the border with Estonia along both banks of the river Pedele.

Valka and the Estonian town Valga are twins, separated by the Estonian/Latvian border but using the slogan "One Town, Two Countries". The border dividing the Livonian town of Walk was marked out in 1920 by an international jury headed by British Colonel Stephen George Tallents.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Valka” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.