Kuldīgas apriņķis

Kuldīgas apriņķis (German: Kreis Goldingen, Russian: Гольдингенский уезд) was a historic county of the Courland Governorate and of the Republic of Latvia. Its capital was Kuldīga (Goldingen).

Kuldīgas apriņķis on the map of Latvia (1938).
Goldingen County on the map of Courland Governorate (1820).

History

The Chief Captaincy of Kuldīga (German: Oberhauptmannschaft Goldingen) was founded in 1617 as a subdivision of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia. In 1795, the Duchy was incorporated into the Russian Empire, and in 1819 County of Kuldīga (Kreis Goldingen) became one of the ten counties of the Courland Governorate.

After establishment of the Republic of Latvia in 1918, the Kuldīgas apriņķis[1] existed until 1949, when the Council of Ministers of the Latvian SSR split it into the newly created districts (rajons) of Kuldīga, Saldus, Auce (dissolved in 1959) and Skrunda (dissolved in 1959).

Demographics

At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Kreis Goldingen had a population of 66,335. Of these, 86.6% spoke Latvian, 8.5% German, 4.0% Yiddish, 0.3% Lithuanian, 0.3% Romani, 0.2% Russian and 0.1% Polish as their native language. [2]

gollark: Giannis is blue.
gollark: I think this is a giannis cultist, not giannis.
gollark: In modern society food is very cheap and produced efficiently by some tiny fraction of the population. Meanwhile, the rich take *ages* to grow to significant sizes and require feeding anyway. There's basically no good reason to eat the rich.
gollark: I doubt the rich are very good food sources.
gollark: Initiating anti-duct-taping lasers.

References
  1. "Letonika.lv. Vārdnīcas - Latviešu—angļu vārdnīca. Apriņķis = district or county". www.letonika.lv. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  2. "Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской Империи 1897 г. Распределение населения по родному языку и уездам 50 губерний Европейской России" (in Russian). Демоскоп Weekly. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
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