Preiļi Municipality ( lv, Preiļu novads) is a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in
Latgale,
Latvia. The municipality was formed in 2000 by
merging
Merge, merging, or merger may refer to:
Concepts
* Merge (traffic), the reduction of the number of lanes on a road
* Merge (linguistics), a basic syntactic operation in generative syntax in the Minimalist Program
* Merger (politics), the com ...
Aizkalne Parish,
Preiļi Parish and
Preiļi town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
. In 2009 it absorbed
Pelēči Parish
Pelēči Parish ( lv, Pelēču pagasts) is an administrative unit of Preiļi Municipality, Latvia and previously the Preiļi District
Preiļi District ( lv, Preiļu rajons) was an administrative division of Latvia, located in Latgale region ...
and
Sauna Parish, too the administrative centre being Preiļi. The population in 2020 was 9,054.
On 1 July 2021, Preiļi Municipality was enlarged when
Riebiņi Municipality,
Vārkava Municipality and
Aglona Parish were merged into it.
Twin towns — sister cities
Preiļi is
twinned with:
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Hlybokaye, Belarus
*
Nizhyn
Nizhyn ( uk, Ні́жин, Nizhyn, ) is a city located in Chernihiv Oblast of northern Ukraine along the Oster River. The city is located north-east of the national capital Kyiv. Nizhyn serves as the administrative center of Nizhyn Raion. It ...
, Ukraine
*
Ocnița, Moldova
*
Sahil, Azerbaijan
*
Utena
Utena () is a city in north-east Lithuania. It is the administrative center of Utena district and Utena County. Utena is one of the oldest settlements of Lithuania. The name of the city is most probably derived from a hydronym. The name of the s ...
, Lithuania
See also
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Administrative divisions of Latvia
References
Municipalities of Latvia
Latgale
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