Zemgale (also historically known as Semigallia or Semigalia) forms an historical region of Latvia, sometimes also including a part of Lithuania. The region takes its name from the Baltic people known as Semigallians. People of Baltic descent. ... The Semigallians (Latvian Zemgaļi, also Zemgalians, Semigalls, Semigalians) are one of the Baltic tribes that lived in the southern middle part of Latvia, Zemgale. ...
Within Latvia, Zemgale has the status of one of the five cutural regions. It lies in the middle of the southern part of the Republic of Latvia, and consists of Bauska, Dobele, and Jelgava counties (rajons). Latvia is divided into several historical and cultural regions. ...
Sēlija (Selonia) often counts as part of Zemgale. Selonia comprises the eastern part of the 1939 province of Semigallia, an area completely located south of the Daugava River. Traditional Selonia also includes a portion of north-east Lithuania. It takes its name from the Baltic tribe of the Selonians. Selonia (Latvian: SÄ“lija), also known as AugÅ¡zeme (the Highland), is a cultural region in Latvia encompassing the eastern part of the historical region of Semigallia (Latvian: Zemgale). ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... River Daugava flowing through Riga city into the Baltic Sea The Daugava or Western Dvina (Latvian: Daugava, German Düna, Belarusan: ЗаходнÑÑ Ð”Ð·ÑŒÐ²Ñ–Ð½Ð°, Russian: ЗаÌÐ¿Ð°Ð´Ð½Ð°Ñ Ð”Ð²Ð¸Ð½Ð°Ì, Finnish Väinä) is a river rising in the Valdai Hills, flowing through Russia and Belarus, and then Latvia, draining into the Gulf of Riga, an arm of... Selonians were a tribe of Baltic peoples that are now extinct. ...
Zemgale (Semigallia) is the central part of Latvia.
Zemgale is bounded by Kurzeme in the east, Gulf of Riga and Daugava river in the north and Latvia-Lithuania border in the south.
This reflects the political division of Latvia between 1629 and 1917, when Kurzeme and Zemgale were together, first as the Duchy of Courland, then as the Courland province in the Russian Empire while Vidzeme and Latgale were politically separate, both from Courland and one from another.
Zemgale is named after the Zemgal tribe, who sprang from the Latgals and the Cours and lived in the northern part of Lithuania.
The Zemgals themselves initially welcomed the Crusaders, but then resisted their invasions; it was the last of all the Latvian regions to surrender to them in 1290, after which about 100,000 Zemgals moved to Lithuania.
Like Kurzeme, Zemgale reached the height of its prosperity under the rule of Duke Jekabs in the 17th century: the fertile soil of the region contributed greatly to the growth of the economy, and Jelgava became one of the cultural centres of the Baltics, a position it retains today.
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