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Bramberģe
Bramberģe was a village in the Glūda Parish of Jelgava Municipality in the Semigallia region of Latvia next to country highway V1059. The village was founded in the 17th century next to the Bramberģe estate. After territorial reform in 2011, Bramberģe lost its village status. See also *Bramberģe Manor References Villages in Semigallia Populated places in Jelgava Municipality {{Zemgale-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bramberģe Manor
Bramberģe Manor (, ) is a manor in Bramberģe, in the Glūda Parish of Jelgava Municipality in the Semigallia region of Latvia. History The manor complex with the park was formed in the end of 16th century. In 1645 Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, Duke Jacob Kettler gave manor to his wife Louis Charlotte, and thus manor remained the property of the crown until the beginning of the 20th century. Louis Charlotte was from Brandenburg and that's how manor got it German name. Initially it was owned by the Duchy, but after its dissolution it becomes the estate of the Russian crown. The present manor house was built later, around 1743. Even so manor house is the oldest stone buildings in Jelgava district in the recent centuries it has been rebuilt and destroyed several times. Some manor buildings erected in 16th century are still in a satisfactory condition. At the end of the 19th century manor gates has been built. In 20th century, in the 1980s the manor complex was renovated. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glūda Parish
Glūda parish () is an administrative unit of Jelgava Municipality in the Semigallia region of Latvia. The administrative center is Nākotne. It was an administrative unit of the Jelgava district. History Historically in the territory of the modern Gluda municipality there were "Auzenburg" manor, Bramberģe Manor ("Brandenburg", Bramberģe), Drucke manor ("Druckenhof"), Kažmere manor ("Kasimirshof", Zemgale), Palcgrave Manor ('' Pfalzgrafen ''), Skibe Manor ('' Alexandershof ''). Until 1925, '' Bramberg Parish '' or '' Bramberg Parish ''. In 1935 Jelgava County Gluda Parish had an area of 63.9 km² with a population of 1177. In 1945, the Dorupes and Glūdas ut the village council but was liquidated in 1949. The village of '' Glūdas' '' was located in Jelgava (1949-1962, after 1967) and Dobele (1962-1967). In 1954, the liquidated Dorupe village and part of the Little village village were added to the village of Glude, and in 1963 kolkhoz «Cīņa (Strugle)» area w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jelgava Municipality
Jelgava Municipality () is a Administrative divisions of Latvia, municipality in Zemgale, Latvia. Its administrative center is Jelgava, although it is extraterritorial as the city is a separate municipality of its own. The municipality was formed in 2009 from Jelgava district by Merger (politics), merging Eleja parish, Eleja Parish, Glūda Parish, Jaunsvirlauka Parish, Lielplatone Parish, Līvbērze Parish, Platone Parish, Sesava Parish, Svēte Parish, Valgunde Parish, Vilce Parish, Vircava Parish, Zaļenieki Parish and Kalnciems town Kalnciems Parish, with its rural territory. As of 2020, the population was 21,738. On 1 July 2021, Jelgava Municipality was enlarged when Ozolnieki Municipality and its parishes were merged into it during the Latvian administrative reform of 2021. It borders Lithuania. Twin towns — sister cities Jelgava Local Municipality is Twin towns and sister cities, twinned with: * Alytus, Lithuania * Argeș County, Romania * Berufsförderungswerk, Germany ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Semigallia
Semigallia is one of the Historical Latvian Lands located to the south of the Daugava and to the north of the Saule region of Samogitia. The territory is split between Latvia and Lithuania, previously inhabited by the Semigallian Baltic tribe. They are noted for their long resistance (1219–1290) against the German crusaders and Teutonic Knights during the Northern Crusades. Semigallians had close linguistic and cultural ties with Samogitians. Name The name of Semigallia appears in sources such as ''Seimgala'', ''Zimgola'' and ''Sem'' 'e'''gallen''. The -gal element means 'border' or 'end', while the first syllable corresponds to ''ziem'' ('north'). Thus, the Semigallians were the "people of the northern borderlands" (i.e. the lower parts of the Mūša and Lielupe river valleys). Territory 1st–4th centuries Between the 1st and the 4th century the cultural area of Semigallian reached its maximum size. In the north, the territory spread the Gulf of Riga and included ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latvia
Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the three Baltic states, along with Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the south. It borders Russia to the east and Belarus to the southeast, and shares a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Sweden to the west. Latvia covers an area of , with a population of 1.9million. The country has a Temperate climate, temperate seasonal climate. Its capital and List of cities and towns in Latvia, largest city is Riga. Latvians, who are the titular nation and comprise 65.5% of the country's population, belong to the ethnolinguistic group of the Balts and speak Latvian language, Latvian. Russians in Latvia, Russians are the most prominent minority in the country, at almost a quarter of the population; 37.7% of the population speak Russian language, Russian as their native tongue. After centuries of State of the Teutonic Order, Teutonic, Swedish Livonia, Swedish, Inflanty Voi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villages In Semigallia
A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a church.-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... ''village'', from Latin ''villāticus'', ultimately from Latin ''villa'' (English ''villa''). Ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
