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翻訳と辞書　辞書検索 [ 開発暫定版 ] スポンサード リンク Riga ： ウィキペディア英語版 Riga Riga (; (ラトビア語:Rīga), ) is the capital and the largest city of Latvia. With 641,007 inhabitants (July 2015), Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga, at the mouth of the Daugava. Riga's territory covers and lies between above sea level,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Riga Municipality Portal )〕 on a flat and sandy plain.〔 Riga was founded in 1201 and is a former Hanseatic League member. Riga's historical centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, noted for its Art Nouveau/Jugendstil architecture and 19th century wooden architecture. Riga was the European Capital of Culture during 2014, along with Umeå in Sweden. Riga hosted the 2006 NATO Summit, the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, and the 2006 IIHF Men's World Ice Hockey Championships. It is home to the European Union's office of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC). Riga is served by Riga International Airport, the largest airport in the Baltic states. Riga is a member of Eurocities,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=EUROCITIES – the network of major European cities )〕 the Union of the Baltic Cities (UBC)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Union of the Baltic Cities )〕 and Union of Capitals of the European Union (UCEU).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Union of Capitals of the European Union )〕 ==Etymology== One theory for the origin of the name ''Riga'' is that it is a corrupted borrowing from the Liv ''ringa'' meaning loop, referring to the ancient natural harbour formed by the tributary loop of the Daugava River.〔〔(Endzelīns, Did Celts Inhabit the Baltics (1911 Dzimtene's Vēstnesis (''Homeland Messenger'') No. 227) ). Retrieved 24 July 2009.〕 The other is that ''Riga'' owes its name to this already-established role in commerce between East and West,〔 as a borrowing of the Latvian ''rija'', for threshing barn, the "j" becoming a "g" in Germannotably, Riga is called ''Rie'' by English geographer Richard Hakluyt (1589),〔〔Pronouncing the "i" and "e" separately, REE-eh, is the best approximation to the Latvian ''rija'', as "Ria" would result in an "i" not "ee" sound.〕 and German historian Dionysius Fabricius (1610) confirms the origin of ''Riga'' from ''rija''.〔〔Fabrius, D. Livonicae Historiae Compendiosa Series, 1610: ''Riga nomen sortita est suum ab aedificiis vel horreis quorum a litus Dunae magna fuit copia, quas livones sua lingua Rias vocare soliti.'' 〕 Another theory could be that Riga was named after Riege, the German name for the River Rīdzene, a tributary of the Daugava.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Riga municipality portal )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Riga」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.