page_title: Daugava
section_title: Etymology
hierarchical_section_title: Daugava / Etymology
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Riga: Blick über die Altstadt mit Dom (rechts) und Brücke über die Düna. English: Riga: View over the old town with the cathedral (right) and the bridge over the Daugava.
context_page_description: The Daugava, is a river rising in the Valdai Hills, flowing through Russia, Belarus, and Latvia and into the Gulf of Riga. The total length of the river is 1,020 km, of which 325 km are in Russia.
context_section_description: According to Max Vasmer's Etymological Dictionary, the toponym Dvina clearly cannot stem from a Uralic language, and it possibly comes from an Indo-European word which used to mean river or stream.
caption: Daugava flowing through Riga in Latvia
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