Valmiera county

18th–20th century county in Latvia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Valmiera county (Latvian: Valmieras apriņķis, German: Kreis Wolmar, Russian: Вольмарскій уѣздъ, romanized: Vol'marskiy uyezd) was a historic county of Latvia and the Russian Empire. Its capital was Valmiera (Wolmar).

Country
Established1745
CapitalValmiera (Wolmar)
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Valmiera County
  • Valmieras apriņķis
  • Kreis Wolmar
  • Вольмарскій уѣздъ
County
Coat of arms of Valmiera County
Coat of arms
County in 1940 within Latvia
County in 1940 within Latvia
Country
Russian GovernorateLivonia
Established1745
Abolished1949
CapitalValmiera (Wolmar)
Area
 • Total
4,959.78 km2 (1,914.98 sq mi)
Population
 (1897)
 • Total
112,826
 • Density22.7482/km2 (58.9175/sq mi)
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Valmieras apriņķis (Wolmarsche Kreis) on the map of Ludwig August Mellin (1798).
The county within the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire

History

The county of Valmiera was created during the administrative territorial reform of the Governorate of Riga in 1783 by merging of parishes from the preexisting Kreis Riga and Kreis Pernau.

After the establishment of the Republic of Latvia in 1918, the Valmieras apriņķis[1] existed until 1949, when the Council of Ministers of the Latvian SSR split it into the newly created districts of Valmiera and Rūjiena (dissolved in 1959).

Demographics

At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Kreis Wolmar had a population of 112,836. Of these, 93.3% spoke Latvian, 3.2% Estonian, 2.0% German, 0.8% Russian, 0.5% Yiddish, 0.1% Romani and 0.1% Polish as their native language.[2]

Divisions

In 1913, Valmiera county had 56 parishes and 2 towns:[3]

Parishes

Towns

References

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