Viļāni municipality - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Viļāni 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 Latgale

Latgale

Latgale is one of the four historical and cultural regions of Latvia recognised in the Constitution of the Latvian Republic. It is the easternmost region 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 Dekšāre parish

Dekšāres parish

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

, Sokolki parish

Sokolki parish

Sokolki parish is an administrative unit of the Viļāni municipality, Latvia.- Towns, villages and settlements of Sokolki parish :*...

, Viļāni parish

Viļāni parish

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

and Viļāni

Vilani

Viļāni is a town in Eastern Latvia, situated in the western part of Rēzekne District. The railway line Riga-Moscow, and the motor highway Riga-Moscow, and the road Preiļi-Balvi cross Viļāni. The Malta river flows through the town....

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 Viļāni.

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