Grobiņa Municipality () was a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

Courland Courland is one of the Historical Latvian Lands in western Latvia. Courland's largest city is Liepāja, which is the third largest city in Latvia. The regions of Semigallia and Selonia are sometimes considered as part of Courland as they were ...

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 municipality was formed in 2009 by merging

Bārta Parish Bārta (in Latvian), also named Bartuva (in Lithuanian), is a river in western Lithuania and Latvia. It originates in the Plungė district, 3 km to north of Lake Plateliai. The Bārta flows in a northwesterly direction, passing through ...

, Gavieze Parish,

Grobiņa Parish Grobiņa Parish () is an administrative unit of South Kurzeme Municipality in the Courland region of Latvia Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the three Baltic stat ...

Medze Parish Medze Parish () is an administrative unit of South Kurzeme Municipality in the Courland region of Latvia. The parish has a population of 1558 (as of 1/07/2010) and covers an area of 109.2 km2. Parish center - Kapsēde. Villages of Medze pa ...

and the town of

Grobiņa Grobiņa (; ) is a town in South Kurzeme Municipality in the Courland region of Latvia, eleven kilometers east of Liepāja. It was founded by the Teutonic Knights in the 13th century. Some ruins of their Grobina castle are still visible. The ...

with the administrative centre being Grobiņa. The population in 2020 was 8,347. Grobiņa Municipality ceased to exist on 1 July 2021, when it was merged into the newly formed

South Kurzeme Municipality South Kurzeme Municipality () is one of the 35 Municipalities of Latvia, municipalities established in Latvia in 2021. It surrounds Liepāja, Latvia's third largest city. Its first elected municipal council took office on 1 July 2021. Its seat is ...

Notable countrymen

* (''Georg Sigismund von Bilterling'', 1733-1803) — pastor and teacher * (1895-1955) — politician * (1889-1947) — actor * Andrejs Freimanis (1914-1994) — officer of the

Latvian Legion The Latvian Legion () was a formation of the Nazi German Waffen-SS during World War II. Created in 1943, it consisted primarily of ethnic Latvians.Gerhard P. Bassler, ''Alfred Valdmanis and the politics of survival'', 2000, p150 Mirdza Kate Balta ...

, recipient of the

Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (), or simply the Knight's Cross (), and its variants, were the highest awards in the military and paramilitary forces of Nazi Germany during World War II. While it was order of precedence, lower in preceden ...

* (1882-1951) — first

Latvian Naval Forces Latvian Naval Forces () is the naval warfare branch of the National Armed Forces. It is tasked with conducting military, search and rescue operations, mine and explosive sweeping on the Baltic Sea, as well as ecological monitoring activities. Th ...

admiral * Eduard Schmidt von der Launitz ('' Eduard Schmidt von der Launitz '', 1796-1869) — German sculptor * (1882-1941) — politician and minister in the Latvian government * Fricis Rokpelnis (1909-1969) — writer

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Former municipalities of Latvia + {{courland-geo-stub

Notable countrymen

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