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Iģene

Iģene, a settlement in Talsi District (Latvian Republic). In the 19th and early 20th centuries — part of Talsi County, Courland Province. From 1918 to 1940 — part of the Latvian Republic; from 1940 to 1991 — the Latvian SSR.

In the early 1910s, around 40 Jewish families lived in Iģene. During the First World War, all Jews left the settlement.