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Main article: Latvia
Real estate
2021: The average cost of a monthly rental of a one-room apartment in the center of Riga is $520
History
1700: The beginning of the Northern War by the invasion of the Elector of Saxony and King Augustus II of Poland in Swedish Livonia with the aim of capturing Riga
On February 11 (February 21), 1700, the troops of the Elector of Saxony and King Augustus II of Poland invaded Swedish Livonia without declaring war. August hoped to capture Riga, which occupied a key strategic position in the Baltic states, and this, firstly, weaken the Swedes, and secondly, get ahead of Russia in the territorial acquisitions of its ally.