Rezekne

Rezekne (rā`zĕknə), Ger. Rositten, city (1992 est. pop. 43,077), E Latvia, on the Rezekne River. It is a rail junction and agricultural market center. Rezekne developed around a castle that was built in 1285 by the Livonian Brothers of the Sword. The city passed to the Polish-Lithuanian state in 1569 and to Russia during the first partition of Poland in 1772. It was incorporated into newly independent Latvia in 1918.

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Rēzekne 

(Rezhitsa until 1920), a city under republic jurisdiction and administrative center of Rēzekne Raion, Latvian SSR; located on the Rēzekne River, which empties into Lake Lubāna. Junction of the Riga-Moscow and Leningrad-Warsaw railroad lines. Population, 34,000 (1974).

Rēzekne is the site of a milk-canning plant, a fruit and vegetable combine, and a meat-packing plant. There also are plants for the production of milking machines, construction tools, and reinforced-concrete structures. Mixed feeds are produced, and there is flax processing. Rēzekne has a school of applied arts, a music school, and a museum of local lore. It became a city in 1773.