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Principality of Koknese | |||||||||
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c. 1180–1208 | |||||||||
![]() Border speculations of Principality of Koknese | |||||||||
Capital | Koknese Castle 56°42′00″N 25°28′00″E / 56.70000°N 25.46667°E | ||||||||
Common languages | Latgalian, Selonian | ||||||||
Religion | Eastern Orthodox Church, Baltic paganism | ||||||||
Government | Principality | ||||||||
Prince (regulus) | |||||||||
• 1180–1206 | Vetseke | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
• Established | c. 1180 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1208 | ||||||||
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History of Latvia |
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The Principality of Koknese (Russian: Кукейносское княжество; German: Fürstentum Kokenhusen; Latin: Terra Kukonois) was a small vassal state of the Principality of Polotsk on the right bank of the Daugava River in ancient Livonia (modern Latvia) during the Middle Ages.