Ērgļi Municipality ( lv, Ērgļu novads) 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
Vidzeme
Vidzeme (; Old Latvian orthography: ''Widda-semme'', liv, Vidūmō) is one of the Historical Latvian Lands. The capital of Latvia, Riga, is situated in the southwestern part of the region. Literally meaning "the Middle Land", it is situated in ...
,
Latvia. The municipality was formed in 2006 by
merging
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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 ...
Ērgļi Parish,
Jumurda Parish and
Sausnēja Parish, the administrative centre being
Ērgļi. The population in 2020 was 2,611.
On 1 July 2021, Ērgļi Municipality ceased to exist and its territory was merged into
Madona Municipality
Madona Municipality ( lv, Madonas novads) is a municipality in Vidzeme, Latvia. The administrative center is Madona.
The total area of the municipality is , and the population in January 2013 was 26,953.Madona municipality Population Register Of ...
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Law on Administrative Territories and Populated Areas
See also
* Administrative divisions of Latvia
References
External links
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Former municipalities of Latvia
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