Ādaži Parish () is an administrative unit of

Ādaži Municipality Ādaži Municipality () is a municipality in the historical region of Vidzeme, and the Riga Planning Region in Latvia, which consists of Ādaži and plus the administrative centre, Ādaži. The municipality is located 25 km from the cent ...

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 t ...

. The parish was initially established in 1866 as a part of Riga county. It was abolished by Soviet occupational authorities from 1949 to 1990. Two years later, in 1992, the seaside area of Ādaži Parish near

Carnikava Carnikava ( Livonian: ''Sarnikau'', , ''Zarnikau''), previously Sānkaule, is a village and the center of the Carnikava Parish of Ādaži Municipality in the Vidzeme region of Latvia. It's located 25 km north from Riga at the mouth of the ...

split off to form

Carnikava Parish Carnikava ( Livonian: ''Sarnikau'', , ''Zarnikau''), previously Sānkaule, is a village and the center of the Carnikava Parish of Ādaži Municipality in the Vidzeme region of Latvia. It's located 25 km north from Riga at the mouth of the ...

and later Carnikava Municipality.

Villages of Ādaži parish

The administrative center of Ādaži Parish is the town of

Ādaži Ādaži () (formerly ) is a town in Pierīga, on the left bank of the Gauja river. The town is the administrative center of Ādaži Municipality, in the Vidzeme region of Latvia. It is located by the highway A1 (Latvia), A1, 21.6 km from ...

, which itself is not part of the parish. In terms of population, the largest village in the parish in 2022 was Kadaga, with 2,362 inhabitants. Kadaga is the location of the headquarters of the largest military area in Latvia - the NAF Ādaži Military Base. In total, the parish consists of 12 villages (3 large villages, 3 medium villages, 1 small village, 1 summer cottage village, and 6 sparsely populated villages), most of which are located along the A1 state highway "Rīga–Ainaži" ( Baltezers and Kadaga). Over the last 10–20 years, three new villages (Birznieki, Eimuri, and Stapriņi) have developed near the center of Ādaži. The village of Alderi is separated from the nearby town of Ādaži by the Gauja–Baltezers Canal. The village of Atari is located in the western part of Ādaži Parish. Iļķene and Āņi are situated on the eastern side of the parish, separated from each other by the

Gauja The Gauja River (, ) is a river in the Vidzeme region of Latvia. It is the only large river of Latvia that begins and ends its flow in Latvia. Its length is 460 km, of which 93.5 km (approximately one-fifth) are in Gauja National P ...

River. Near Iļķene and Āņi is Garkalne. The largest settlements are primarily located in the central and southern parts of the parish.

References

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