Liepāja

or Lie·pa·ja

[ lye-pah-yah; English lee-ep-uh-yuh ]

noun

1. a seaport in W Latvia, on the Baltic.

Liepāja

/ lɪˈpɑːjə /

noun

1. a port in W Latvia on the Baltic Sea; founded by the Teutonic Knights in 1263: a naval and industrial centre, with a fishing fleet. Pop: 86 985 (2002 est) Russian nameLibava German nameLibau

Example Sentences

He started at Napoli, ending up at Olimpia Liepāja in Latvia, where he won the domestic league three times.

From The Guardian

The name of Otto Fischer, a 40-year-old “football coach and locksmith”, appears on a list of around 7,000 murdered Jews from Liepāja.

From The Guardian

Once an important Soviet naval base, the city of Liepāja is now Latvia’s capital of music.

From The Guardian

They then traced Dov Grinman to a Jewish school in Liepāja, where he he had filled out a document listing his three children.

From BusinessWeek