Cēsu apriņķis
Cēsis County
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County | |
Location in the Governorate of Livonia | |
Country |
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Russian Governorate | Livonia |
Established | 1745 |
Abolished | 1949 |
Capital | Wenden |
Area | |
• Total | 5,637.61 km2 (2,176.69 sq mi) |
Population (1897) | |
• Total | 124,208 |
• Density | 22/km2 (57/sq mi) |
Cēsu apriņķis (German: Kreis Wenden, Russian: Венденский уезд) was a historic county in the Swedish Livonia, in the Governorate of Livonia, and in the Republic of Latvia dissolved during the administrative territorial reform of the Latvian SSR in 1949. Its capital was Cēsis (Wenden).
History
First created as the Wenden Voivodeship in 1598, it was transformed into Kreis Wenden of Swedish Livonia in 1629. After the Treaty of Nystad it was incorporated in the Russian Empire and became one of the nine subdivisions of the Riga Viceroyalty (German: Rigasche Statthalterschaft – Stadtholdership of Riga) in 1783 and of the Governorate of Livonia in 1796. The district ran its own internal postal service from 1863 to 1903.
After the establishment of the Republic of Latvia in 1918, the Cēsu apriņķis[1] existed until 1949, when the Council of Ministers of the Latvian SSR split it into the newly created districts (rajons) of Cēsis, Ērgļi (dissolved in 1959), Gaujiena (dissolved in 1956) and Smiltene (dissolved in 1959).
- 1880 postage stamp.
Demographics
At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Kreis Wenden had a population of 124,208. Of these, 94.3% spoke Latvian, 3.5% German, 1.0% Russian, 0.6% Yiddish, 0.2% Polish, 0.2% Estonian and 0.1% Romani as their native language.[2]
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(dissolved before 1949)
- Abrenes apriņķis
- Aizputes apriņķis
- Bauskas apriņķis
- Cēsu apriņķis
- Daugavpils apriņķis
- Dobeles apriņķis
- Grobiņas apriņķis
- Ilūkstes apriņķis
- Jaunjelgavas apriņķis
- Kuldīgas apriņķis
- Ludzas apriņķis
- Rēzeknes apriņķis
- Rīgas apriņķis
- Talsu apriņķis
- Tukuma apriņķis
- Valkas apriņķis
- Valmieras apriņķis
- Ventspils apriņķis
(dissolved 2009)
- Aizkraukle District
- Alūksne District
- Balvi District
- Bauska District
- Cēsis District
- Daugavpils District
- Dobele District
- Gulbene District
- Jēkabpils District
- Jelgava District
- Krāslava District
- Kuldīga District
- Liepāja District
- Limbaži District
- Ludza District
- Madona District
- Ogre District
- Preiļi District
- Rēzekne District
- Riga District
- Saldus District
- Talsi District
- Tukums District
- Valka District
- Valmiera District
- Ventspils District