Venta is a river in north-western Lithuania and western Latvia. Its source is near Kuršėnai in the Lithuanian county of Šiauliai. It flows into the Baltic Sea in Ventspils in Latvia. The Murray River in Australia. ... Å iauliai County is one of ten counties in Lithuania. ... The Baltic Sea is located in Northern Europe, bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainlands of Northern Europe, Eastern Europe, Central Europe, and the Danish islands. ... Ventspils is a city in northwestern Latvia, on the coast of the Baltic Sea. ...
Cities along the Venta include Mažeikiai (Lithuania), Kuldīga and Ventspils (Latvia). Mažeikiai Coat Of Arms Mažeikiai is a town in the north-western part of Lithuania, on the Venta river. ... KuldÄ«ga (German: Goldingen) is is a town in western Latvia. ...
Other historical names for this river include Venta (Latvian, Lithuanian), Windau (German), Windawa (Polish).
Venta is also a name of a Lithuanian furniture manufacturer.
Venta is also a famous Lithuanian furniture manufacturer.
It is situated alog the VentaRiver, Kuršėnai - Mažeikiai highway, and a railroad connecting Mažeikiai with Šiauliai (the train station is called Akmenė).
Venta music school has a traditional Lithuanian music assemble "Ventukai." Its members are mostly local youth ranging from 9 to 20 years old.
La Venta is dated to between 1200 BCE and 400 BCE with its greatest prominence coming after 900 BCE during the Middle Formative Period.
In its heyday, La Venta was a monumental center that contained an elaborate series of buried offerings and tombs as well as monumental sculptures similar to the many found at San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán, perhaps the most well known of the Olmec sites.
La Venta was found and excavated by Matthew Stirling between 1941 and 1943, with several subsequent excavations following through the 1960s.
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