Rūjiena municipality - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Rūjiena municipality is a municipality

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 Rūjiena

Rujiena

-Notable people:Arturs Alberings, Prime Minister of Latvia from 7 May 1926 to 18 December, 1926.Gustav Klutsis Constructivist Photographer and Graphic DesignerMoses Wolf Goldberg, chemist, was born here in 1905.-External links:*...

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...

, Ipiķi parish

Ipiķi parish

- Towns, villages and settlements of Ipiķi parish :*...

, Jeri parish

Jeri parish

- Towns, villages and settlements of Jeri parish :*...

, Lode parish

Lode parish

- Towns, villages and settlements of Lode parish :*...

and Vilpulka parish

Vilpulka parish

- Towns, villages and settlements of Vilpulka parish :*...

the administrative centre being Rūjiena.

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