Mazsalaca municipality
Encyclopedia
Mazsalaca municipality is a municipality
in Vidzeme
, Latvia
. The municipality was formed in 2009 by merging Ramata parish
, Sēļi parish
, Skaņkalne parish
and Mazsalaca
town
the administrative centre being Mazsalaca.
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 Vidzeme
Vidzeme
Vidzeme is one of the historical and cultural regions of Latvia. Literally meaning "the Middle Land" it is situated in north-central Latvia north of the Daugava River...
, 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 Ramata parish
Ramata parish
- Towns, villages and settlements of Ramata parish :*...
, Sēļi parish
Sēļi parish
- Towns, villages and settlements of Sēļi parish :*...
, Skaņkalne parish
Skaņkalne parish
- Towns, villages and settlements of Skaņkalne parish :*...
and Mazsalaca
Mazsalaca
Mazsalaca is a town in Mazsalaca municipality, Vidzeme, Latvia with 2412 inhabitants.The area includes the largest known Stone Age burial site in Northern Europe and was first settled ca. 5000 BC...
town
Town
A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...
the administrative centre being Mazsalaca.