Kolka is a large village in Kolka Parish, Talsi Municipality, on the tip of Cape Kolka in Courland in Latvia, on the coast of the Gulf of Riga. Cape Kolka is mentioned for the first time in the Nordic Viking Age and is mentioned in the inscription of the Mervalla Runestone which dates from around 1000 AD is thus one of the oldest written sources that mentio…Kolka is a large village in Kolka Parish, Talsi Municipality, on the tip of Cape Kolka in Courland in Latvia, on the coast of the Gulf of Riga. Cape Kolka is mentioned for the first time in the Nordic Viking Age and is mentioned in the inscription of the Mervalla Runestone which dates from around 1000 AD is thus one of the oldest written sources that mentions areas of Latvia. According to some historians, a Catholic missionary built a church on Cape Kursa after the Danish invasion around 1050. After 1161, King Abel appointed Ernemord, a canon of the Church of Lund in Denmark, as bishop of Kuramaa. Kolka may be the place where Danish archbishop Absalon built the first church in the Baltic region. The first mentions of it are from 1387, when it was called Domesnes, which may refer to Danish or Finnish background. The Livonian name Kūolka means "corner" in English.
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