Košrags is a populated place in Kolka parish

Kolka parish

- Villages of Kolka parish :* Kolka...

, Dundaga municipality

Dundaga municipality

Dundaga municipality is a municipality in Courland, Latvia. The municipality was formed in 2009 by merging Dundaga parish and Kolka parish, the administrative centre being Dundaga.- References :...

, Latvia

Latvia

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 on the shore of the Irbe Strait

Irbe Strait

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 of the Baltic Sea

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One of twelve Livonian villages on the Līvõd rānda - the Livonian Coast in Courland

Courland

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 (Kurzeme).
Other names: Kosraga, Koshragutsiems, Košraga, Košrags, Košraguciems, Kosraga Ciems, Kosraguciems, Košraga Ciems

Kosrags's farm "Kukini" was mentioned in 1680 chronicles for the first time. By 1770 there were four old farms in Kosrags (Kine Diki, Kukini, Tilmaci and Zoki). Two tenant-farmer habitations existed in 1896, and another seven habitations after 1905.

The houses in the village were built rather densely along the two roads:

• an old littoral road connecting all 16 Livs' fishermen villages at that time;
• the fishermen's road leading from the littoral road - it connected the villages with the working place near the sea.

These roads have preserved their ancient shape till the present day.

Livonian

Livonian people

The Livonians or Livs are the indigenous inhabitants of Livonia, a large part of what is today northwestern Latvia and southwestern Estonia. They spoke the Uralic Livonian language, a language which is closely related to Estonian and Finnish...

 priest and ethnologist Edgar Vaalgamaa

Edgar Vaalgamaa

Edgar Vaalgamaa was Livonian priest and ethnologist.Vaalgamaa was born in Košrags in the northern coast of Courland. As like many other Livonians, his family got their living from fishing. Edgar Vaalgamaa however, didn't want to be a fisherman, but went to study theology to the university of...

was born in Košrags.