Jelgava

Jelgava (German: Mitau) is a city in central Latvia about 41 km southwest of Riga with about 64,000 inhabitants. It is the largest town in the region of Zemgale (Semigalia). Jelgava was a capital of the united Duchy of Courland and Semigallia and an administrative center of the Courland Governorate, Russian Empire until 1919.