Jaunjelgava

Jaunjelgava, whose name means New Jelgava and which carried the German names Neustadt and Friedrichstadt, is a town on the left bank of the Daugava River in Aizkraukle Municipality, in the Selonia region of Latvia, about 80 kilometers southeast of Riga. It received town rights in 1647 and had a population of 1,616 as of 2026, and it now serves as the extra-territorial administrative center of the surrounding Jaunjelgava Parish. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/