Wierland County

Wierland County (German: Kreis Wierland, German: Kreis Viru, German: Kreis Rakvere, Russian: Vezenbergsky Uyezd, Russian: Virlyandsky Uyezd) was one of the four counties of the Russian Empire located in the Governorate of Estonia.[1] It was situated in the eastern part of the governorate (in present-day northeastern Estonia). Its capital was Rakvere (Wesenberg). The territory of Kreis Wierland corresponds to most parts of the present-day Ida-Viru and Lääne-Viru counties and a small part of Jõgeva County.[2]

Demographics

At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Kreis Wierland had a population of 120, 230. Of these, 90.3% spoke Estonian, 7.2% Russian, 1.9% German, 0.1% Polish, 0.1% Yiddish, 0.1% Latvian and 0.1% Finnish as their native language.[3]

gollark: You can, I'm sure, just complain that all examples of that aren't REAL communism. But really, centralized economic power leads to centralized political power.
gollark: But *persecuting* individuals instead of just being broken and failing them... well, there are probably examples, I just don't know how exactly to find them.
gollark: Well, "it starves people" is obvious and well-documented.
gollark: I have no idea where to look up specifically "people for whom communism has been bad".
gollark: Your meme is basically "rhetoric" too.

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