Valdemārpils (; german: Saßmacken) (called Sasmaka until 1926) is a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

in northwestern Latvia, in

Talsi Municipality Talsi Municipality ( lv, Talsu novads) is a municipality in Courland, Latvia. The municipality was formed in 2009 by merging Abava parish, Balgale parish, Ģibuļi parish, Īve parish, Ķūļciems parish, Laidze parish, Lauciene parish, L ...

. The town is named after

Krišjānis Valdemārs Krišjānis Valdemārs (in Germanized spelling as Christian Waldemar or Woldemar) (2 December 1825 at Vecjunkuri in Ārlava parish (now Valdgale parish, Courland, Latvia) – 7 December 1891 in Moscow, Russia) was a writer, editor, educator, poli ...

, born in nearby Valdgale parish (then part of Ārlava parish), who was one of the leaders of

the First Latvian National Awakening The First Latvian National Awakening or the First Awakening ( lv, Pirmā Atmoda) was a cultural and national revival movement between 1850 and 1880 among the Young Latvians, a group of well-educated Latvians, who, opposed to the Baltic German dom ...

. He is celebrated in the town with a memorial stone. Famous Jewish bibliographer and book collector

Ephraim Deinard Ephraim Deinard (1846–1930) was one of the greatest Hebrew "bookmen" of all time. He was a bookseller, bibliographer, publicist, polemicist, historian, memoirist, author, editing, editor, and publisher, all rolled into one. Deinard produced s ...

was born here in 1846. File:Sasmaka Castle (Valdemarpils).jpg, Sasmaka manor File:Valdemarpils Evangelic Lutheran Church.jpg, Lutheran church in Valdemārpils File:Valdemārpils Krišjāņa Valdemāra piemineklis 1999-09-04.jpg, Monument to Krišjānis Valdemārs File:Valdemarpils Pentecostal Church (1).jpg, Pentecostal church in Valdemārpils

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* Towns in Latvia 1917 establishments in Latvia Populated places established in 1917 Talsi Municipality {{Courland-geo-stub