Riebiņi Municipality ( lv, Riebiņu novads, ltg, Ribinišku nūvods) is a former
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 2004 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 ...
Galēni Parish,
Riebiņi Parish
Riebiņi Parish ( lv, Riebiņu pagasts, ltg, Ribinišku pogosts) is an administrative unit of Preiļi Municipality in the Latgale region of Latvia. At the beginning of 2014, the population of the parish was 1443. The administrative center is Ri ...
,
Rušona Parish,
Silajāņi Parish,
Sīļukalns Parish and
Stabulnieki Parish, the administrative centre being
Riebiņi
Riebiņi ( lv, Riebiņi, ltg, Ribiniški, pl, Rybiniszki, yi, Ribinishok) is a village in Riebiņi Parish, Preiļi Municipality in the Latgale region of Latvia.
History
The village was a shtetl, and most of the inhabitants were Jewish. Acc ...
. The population in 2020 was 4,513.
On 1 July 2021, Riebiņi Municipality ceased to exist and its territory was merged into
Preiļi Municipality
Preiļi Municipality ( lv, Preiļu novads) is a municipality in Latgale, Latvia. The municipality was formed in 2000 by merging Aizkalne Parish, Preiļi Parish and Preiļi town. In 2009 it absorbed Pelēči Parish and Sauna Parish, too the a ...
.
Law on Administrative Territories and Populated Areas
See also
* Administrative divisions of Latvia
References
External links
*
Former municipalities of Latvia
Latgale
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