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Jūrkalne
Village
Jūrkalne is located in Latvia
Jūrkalne
Jūrkalne
Location in Latvia
Coordinates: 57°00′22″N 21°23′13″E / 57.00611°N 21.38694°E / 57.00611; 21.38694
Country Latvia
Municipality Ventspils
Parish Jūrkalne
Elevation 14 m (46 ft)
Population (2015)
 • Total 238
Time zone Eastern European Time (UTC+2)
 • Summer (DST) Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+3)
Website www.jurkalne.lv

Jūrkalne is a village in Latvia. It is the centre of a parish of the same name within Ventspils Municipality on the Baltic coast. Its former German name was Feliksberg (Felixberg), but its former Latvian name was Medeņciems (Meddenzeem).

Jūrkalne was the birthplace of Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, the Jewish ethnologist and musicologist.

Coordinates: 57°00′22″N 21°23′13″E / 57.00611°N 21.38694°E / 57.00611; 21.38694


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