Aloja municipality
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Aloja municipality is a municipality
in Latvia
. The municipality was formed in 2009 by merging Aloja
town with its countryside territory, Staicele
town with its countryside territory, Braslava parish
and Brīvzemnieki parish
the administrative centre being Aloja.
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
in Latvia
Latvia
Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...
. The municipality was formed in 2009 by merging Aloja
Aloja, Latvia
Aloja is a town in northern Latvia, close to the border with Estonia. It is within the country's Limbaži District.-See also:List of cities in Latvia...
town with its countryside territory, Staicele
Staicele
-See also:*List of cities in Latvia...
town with its countryside territory, Braslava parish
Braslava parish
- Towns, villages and settlements of Braslava parish :*...
and Brīvzemnieki parish
Brīvzemnieki parish
- Towns, villages and settlements of Brīvzemnieki parish :*...
the administrative centre being Aloja.