Saka (, until 1918 ) is a village in

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 ...

in the

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region of

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, the administrative center of Saka Parish. Located at the confluence of the rivers

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, forming the river

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. The regional highway P111 (

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) passes nearby. The distance to the city

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is about 52 km. According to the data for 2017, 33 people lived in the settlement. There is a Parish administration, a library, a guest house, Lutheran and Baptist churches.

History

According to written sources, the name "Saccze" or "Sacese" was first mentioned in 1230 in the documents of Course State.S. Rusmanis, I. Viks "Kurzeme". Publication "Latvian Encyclopedia", 1993. The settlement has formed on the former Sackenhausen estate. The construction of the castle may have started soon after 1386, when Courland bishop Otto acquired place owned by Arnold Lindal. It is believed that the bishop ordered the construction of a castle here to ensure uninterrupted traffic on the then navigable Tebre and to protect the mouth of the Saka River. In 1522 the castle came under the control of the Osten-Sacken family who ruled the castle until 1714. During the

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, the castle was destroyed in 1660 and has not been restored since. Later the nobility chapel was demolished in 1940 year. In Soviet times, the village was the center of the Saki Village Council Liepāja district. The central estate of the Tsentiba collective farm was located in the village.

References

Villages in Courland Populated places in South Kurzeme Municipality {{Courland-geo-stub