Subate (pronunciation; Subbath), population 964, is a town in Latvia near the border with Lithuania. Subate is located in Selonia, the eastern part of the Zemgale region, 40 km west of Daugavpils. In 1570 Gotthard Kettler, the first Duke of Courland and Semigallia, granted the Baltic German Plater (...) (from Wikipedia)