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Daugavpils Apriņķis
Daugavpils county () was a historic county in Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Poland–Lithuania, the Vitebsk Governorate of the Russian Empire and in the Republic of Latvia, which was dissolved during the administrative territorial reform of the Latvian SSR in 1949. Its administrative centre was Daugavpils. History Established in 1621 as one of the subdivisions of the Inflanty Voivodeship (''powiat dyneburski'') of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1772, after the First Partition of Poland it became one of uyezds of Polotsk Governorate (, 1776—1796), later Belarusian Governorate (1796—1802) and Vitebsk Governorate (1802—1917) of the Russian Empire. In 1893, it was renamed to Dvinsk county. On 31 December 1917 Daugavpils county, populated by mostly Latvian people, Latvians were transferred to Governorate of Livonia, becoming a part of the Latvian Soviet autonomy of Iskolat and a part of the Latvian Socialist Soviet Republic on 17 December 1918. After signing of t ... [...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] |