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Latto
Latto (Alyssa Michelle Stephens, born 1998), formerly Miss Mulatto and Mulatto, is an Atlanta rapper who won The Rap Game season 1, signed to RCA, and is known for Big Energy, Seven, and the 2026 album Big Mama.
Latur (लातूर)
Latur (लातूर), historically Lattalut, is a city and district in Maharashtra's Marathwada region, India; Rashtrakuta homeland, Balaghat plateau district of 2.45 million people, site of the 2016 Jaldoot water-train drought relief.
Latveria
Latveria (Kingdom of Latveria) is a fictional Eastern European country in Marvel Comics, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in Fantastic Four Annual #2 (1964) as the absolute-monarchy homeland ruled by Doctor Doom from Castle Doom in the capital Doomstadt.
Latvia
Latvia (Latvija), a Baltic parliamentary republic with capital Riga, EU, euro, Schengen and NATO member; population about 1.86 million, famous for its five-yearly UNESCO-recognized Song and Dance Celebration.
Latvia national football team
The Latvia national football team (Latvijas izlase) is Latvia's men's team, run by the Latvian Football Federation; reached the EURO 2004 group stage and has won the Baltic Cup 11 times.
Latvian Academy of Sciences
The Latvian Academy of Sciences (Latvijas Zinātņu akadēmija) is Latvia's national academy of elected scientists, founded as a Soviet academy in 1945/1946 and transformed into a European-style personal academy without institutes in 1992; it awards named prizes and ranks annual scientific achievements.
Latvian Central Council
The Latvian Central Council, or Latvijas Centrālā padome, was an illegal resistance organization founded in Riga in 1943 to restore Latvian sovereignty under the 1922 Constitution.
Latvian dainas
Latvian dainas are short Latvian folk songs, two to four lines long, regarded as symbols of Latvian identity and collected in the monumental edition Latvju dainas.
Latvian Declaration of Independence
The Latvian Declaration of Independence (Latvijas Republikas proklamēšana) was the proclamation of an independent Republic of Latvia by the People's Council in Riga on 18 November 1918.
Latvian Farmers' Union
The Latvian Farmers' Union (Latvijas Zemnieku savienība) is a Latvian centrist agrarian political party founded in 1917 by Kārlis Ulmanis, suspended after his 1934 coup, and restored in 1990.
Latvian folk song
Latvian folk song, known in Latvian as latviešu tautasdziesmas and classically as dainas, is the oral song folklore of Latvia, rooted in pre-Christian Baltic tradition.
Latvian Higher League
The Latvian Higher League, known as the Virslīga and currently styled Tonybet Virslīga, is the top division of men's football in Latvia, run by the Latvian Football Federation since 1992.
Latvian language
Latvian (latviešu valoda) is a Baltic Indo-European language, official in Latvia and the EU, with about 2 million speakers, first written in 1530, three dialects, and a 1908 Mīlenbahs–Endzelīns alphabet.
Latvian lats
The Latvian lats (LVL) was the currency of Latvia in two eras, 1922 to 1940 and 1993 to 2014, when the euro replaced it at 0.702804 lats per euro.
Latvian Music Awards
The Latvian Music Awards, known since 2014 as Zelta Mikrofons (Golden Microphone), are Latvia's national awards for music recordings, presented annually since the mid-1990s and judged by an industry jury.
Latvian National Armed Forces
Latvia's armed forces (Nacionālie bruņotie spēki): regular forces, National Guard and reserve under a Commander subordinate to the Defence Minister; 6,700 troops plus 10,000 National Guards in 2022, 3.25% of GDP defence budget in 2025.
Latvian National Awakening
The Latvian National Awakening (Latvian: atmoda) names two mobilizations of Latvians as a nation: the 1850–1890 cultural movement led by the Young Latvians, and the late-1980s drive for independence.
Latvian National Theatre
The Latvian National Theatre (Latvijas Nacionālais teātris) is a state-owned theater in Riga, Latvia, whose 1902 building was where Latvian independence was proclaimed on 18 November 1918.
Latvian Provisional National Council
The Latvian Provisional National Council (Latviešu pagaidu nacionālā padome) was a political body of Latvian civic parties founded in Valka in November 1917 that defended Latvia's right to self-determination.
Latvian realism
Latvian realism is the branch of realism in Latvian literature and art, begun in the 1870s, with Rūdolfs Blaumanis its pioneer and Andrejs Upīts a leading figure.
Latvian Riflemen
Latvian Riflemen (latviešu strēlnieki) were Latvian national formations in the Imperial Russian Army from 1915, fought on the Riga front, later served the Bolsheviks as the Red Latvian Riflemen in the Russian Civil War.
Latvian romanticism
Latvian romanticism (Latvian: romantisms) is the local form of the European Romantic movement, with a national current flourishing in Latvian literature of the 1870s and 1880s.
Latvian ruble
The Latvian ruble (Latvijas rublis) was Latvia's transitional currency between the Soviet ruble and the lat, in circulation from May 1992 to October 1993 and exchanged at 200 rubles to 1 lat.
Latvian Russian Union
Latvian Russian Union (Latvijas Krievu savienība, LKS): pro-Moscow Latvian political party founded January 2014 from For Human Rights in a United Latvia (ZaPChEL), long led by MEP Tatjana Ždanoka; extra-parliamentary, 3.63% in 2022.
Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party
The Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party (LSDSP) is a Latvian left-wing party founded in 1904, the largest Latvian party until the 1934 coup and today a small extra-parliamentary party.
Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic
The Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic (LSPR) was a Bolshevik regime in present-day Latvia from 1918 to 1920, proclaimed by Pēteris Stučka during the Latvian War of Independence.
Latvian Song and Dance Festival
Held in Riga every five years, the Song and Dance Festival (Vispārējie latviešu Dzimu's Deju' svētki) is a national arts celebration gathering roughly 40,000 people from Latvia.
Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (Latvijas Padomju Sociālistiskā Republika) was a Soviet republic established in 1940 after the USSR occupied Latvia, lasting until independence was restored in 1990.
Latvian symbolism
Latvian symbolism is the presence of the European Symbolist movement in Latvian literature and art around the turn of the 20th century, reaching Latvia later than France and intertwined with national identity.
Latvian War of Independence
The Latvian War of Independence (Latvian: Latvijas Neatkarības karš, also called Brīvības cīņas, the Freedom Struggles) secured the independent Latvian state from 1918 to the 1920 peace treaty.