Valmieras apriņķis explained

Valmiera County
Settlement Type:County
Mapsize:225px
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Russian Governorate
Subdivision Name1:Livonia
Established Title:Established
Established Date:1745
Extinct Title:Abolished
Extinct Date:1949
Seat Type:Capital
Seat:Wolmar
Area Total Km2:4959.78
Population As Of:1897
Population Total:112,826
Population Density Km2:auto

Valmiera County (Latvian: Valmieras apriņķis,,) was a historic county of Latvia. Its capital was Valmiera (Wolmar).

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 (rajons) 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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Letonika.lv. Vārdnīcas - Latviešu—angļu vārdnīca. Apriņķis = district or county. www.letonika.lv. 2019-10-14.
  2. http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/rus_lan_97_uezd.php?reg=741 Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской Империи 1897 г.