Cēsu apriņķis

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Cēsis County
  • Cēsu apriņķis
  • Kreis Wenden
  • Венденскій уѣздъ
Location in the Governorate of Livonia
Location in the Governorate of Livonia
Country
Russian GovernorateLivonia
Established1745
Abolished1949
CapitalWenden
Area
 • Total5,637.61 km2 (2,176.69 sq mi)
Population
 (1897)
 • Total124,208
 • Density22/km2 (57/sq mi)
Cēsu apriņķis (Wendensche Kreis) on the map of Ludwig August Mellin (1798).

Cēsu apriņķis (

Latvian SSR in 1949. Its capital was Cēsis
(Wenden).

History

First created as the

Kreis Wenden of Swedish Livonia in 1629. After the Treaty of Nystad it was incorporated in the Russian Empire and became one of the nine subdivisions of the Riga Viceroyalty (German: Rigasche Statthalterschaft – Stadtholdership of Riga) in 1783 and of the Governorate of Livonia
in 1796. The district ran its own internal postal service from 1863 to 1903.

After the establishment of the Republic of Latvia in 1918, the Cēsu apriņķis[1] existed until 1949, when the Council of Ministers of the Latvian SSR split it into the newly created districts (rajons) of Cēsis, Ērgļi (dissolved in 1959), Gaujiena (dissolved in 1956) and Smiltene (dissolved in 1959).

  • 1880 postage stamp.
    1880 postage stamp.

Demographics

At the time of the

Yiddish, 0.2% Polish, 0.2% Estonian and 0.1% Romani as their native language.[2]

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.

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