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Vilkupe
Vilkupe olves' riveris a small village in Aknīste Parish, Jēkabpils Municipality in the Selonia region of Latvia. Vilkupe borders Gārsene ( Gārsene Manor), Asere (Asare), and Susēja. The village center is located in the Suseja river valley. Road V822 connects village to it neighbors. Three rivers flow through the village, the , and . Also, there are two lakes, Vilkupe (Zuju) lake and Mežezers (Forest lake). There are about 80 residents of the village, but their number is decreasing every year. The village has about 27 houses, of which people live in only 17. Tourist attractions Three old inns are located in Vilkupe, Vārpu Krogs, the Velna Krogs (''Devil's Inn'') and Skursteņkrogs. Ancient water mill sluice wall fragments of an old stone bridge over the river Dobe, Eglona-Susēja canal built during the reign of Duke Jacob, milk processing plant and a sovkhoz A sovkhoz ( rus, совхо́з, p=sɐfˈxos, a=ru-sovkhoz.ogg, syllabic abbreviation, abbreviated fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aknīste Parish
Aknīste Parish () is a sparsely settled rural jurisdiction at the southern margin of Jēkabpils Municipality in the historical region of Selonia in Latvia. It was constituted on 10 February 2010, when the countryside around the small town of Aknīste was separated as a distinct local authority under amendments to Latvia’s territorial-administration law. The parish straddles rolling farmland on the upper reaches of the Dienvidsusēja River, part of the Augšdaugava upland, and abuts the Lithuanian border to the south. According to the Central Statistical Bureau, the parish had 341 permanent residents on 1 January 2024—barely 2.7 inhabitants per km2—concentrated in the five listed villages of Mežaraupi, Navicki, Pasusēja, Susēja and Vilkupe. Low population density and gently undulating topography favour mixed dairy-and-cereal farming, while cut-over peatlands supply horticultural substrate to a processing plant authorised in the parish's industrial zone. Aknīste ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jēkabpils Municipality
Jēkabpils Municipality () is a municipality in Latvia. The municipality was formed in 2009 by Merger (politics), merging Ābeļi Parish, Dignāja Parish, Dunava Parish, Kalna Parish, Leimaņi Parish, Rubene Parish and Zasa Parish. During the Administrative divisions of Latvia, 2021 Latvian administrative reform, the previous Jēkabpils Municipality was merged with Aknīste Municipality, Krustpils Municipality, Sala Municipality, Latvia, Sala Municipality and Viesīte Municipality. The new municipality now fully corresponds with the area of the pre-2009 Jēkabpils district. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Jēkabpils. From 2009 to 2021, the city was also a separate first-level municipality (republican city) at the same time. In 2020, the population of the municipality was 4,156. In 2024, the total population was 39,276. It borders Lithuania. Symbols (2009–2021) The coat of arms and the flag used until the 2021 Latvian administrative reform were a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Village
A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a church.-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... ''village'', from Latin ''villāticus'', ultimately from Latin ''villa'' (English ''vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selonia
Selonia (; ), also known as Augšzeme (the "Highland"), is one of the Historical Latvian Lands encompassing the eastern part of the historical region of Semigallia () as well as a portion of northeastern Lithuania. Its main city and cultural center is Jēkabpils. The Selonian language has become extinct, though some of the inhabitants still speak a Selonian subdialect. History The territory of Selonia is defined by Latvian law as follows: the part of Aizkraukle city on the left bank of the Daugava, Daudzese Parish, Jaunjelgava Parish, Jaunjelgava city, Nereta Parish, Mazzalve Parish, Pilskalne Parish, Sece Parish, Sērene Parish, Staburags Parish, Sunākste Parish, Zalve Parish, Bebrene Parish, Demene Parish, Dviete Parish, Eglaine Parish, Ilūkste city, Kalkūne Parish, Laucesa Parish, Medumi Parish, Pilskalne Parish, Prode Parish, Saliena Parish, Skrudaliena Parish, Subate city, Svente Parish, Šēdere Parish, Tabore Parish, Vecsaliena Parish, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latvia
Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the three Baltic states, along with Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the south. It borders Russia to the east and Belarus to the southeast, and shares a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Sweden to the west. Latvia covers an area of , with a population of 1.9million. The country has a Temperate climate, temperate seasonal climate. Its capital and List of cities and towns in Latvia, largest city is Riga. Latvians, who are the titular nation and comprise 65.5% of the country's population, belong to the ethnolinguistic group of the Balts and speak Latvian language, Latvian. Russians in Latvia, Russians are the most prominent minority in the country, at almost a quarter of the population; 37.7% of the population speak Russian language, Russian as their native tongue. After centuries of State of the Teutonic Order, Teutonic, Swedish Livonia, Swedish, Inflanty Voi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gārsene Manor
Gārsene Manor is a Neo-Gothic manor house located in Gārsene Parish, Jēkabpils Municipality in the Selonia region of Latvia. The palace houses a museum where visitors can view an exhibition about the Baltic-German von Budberg family. History Gārsene manor was built in Neo-Gothic style for the von Budberg family around 1856 next to a rectangular courtyard. The two-story portion of the manor was built first, with a single story wing added in 1885. The family owned the manor until the Latvian agrarian reforms in the 1920s. In 1939, the building was rebuilt after the project of the school architect Vassiliev, and since 1940 it is part of the Gārsene local elementary school. An 18th century mill on the estate was remodeled with a Neo-Gothic façade in the second half of the 19th century. There is also a wide landscape park with ponds and decorative bridges adjacent to the manor. There are thirty different attractions for the visitors to see, one of which leads to the baronial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asare
Asare is a surname. Notable people with the name include: *Abena Oppong-Asare (born 1984), British Labour Party politician * Bediako Asare, Ghanaian journalist and writer * Edward Asare (born 1993), Ghanaian Blogger and a Digital Marketing Professional * Isaac Asare (born 1974), Ghanaian footballer * Jermaine Asare (born 1983), Welsh boxer * Jones Kusi-Asare (born 1980), Swedish-Ghanaian footballer *Kwabena Asare Kwabena Asare (born February 25, 1992) is a former professional Canadian football offensive lineman who played in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played U Sports football at Carleton. University career Asare played U Sports football fo ... (born 1992), Canadian football player * Meshack Asare (born 1945), Ghanaian writer * Patrick Asare (born 1995), Ghanaian footballer * Nana Akwasi Asare (born 1986), Ghanaian footballer *Samuel Asare Konadu (or Asare Konadu) (1932–1994), Ghanaian journalist, writer and publisher * Nsiah Asare, Ghanaian physician * Theodore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Kettler
Jacob Kettler (; ; 28 October 1610 – 1 January 1682) was Duke of Courland and Semigallia from 1642 to 1682. Under his rule, Courland and Semigallia became more independent of its Polish suzerain, reached its peak in wealth, and even engaged in its own overseas colonization, making it one of the smallest, but fastest growing states in the world at that time. Yet, in the end the results of his rule failed in the confrontation with much stronger powers both directly in the Baltic (Sweden) and overseas (Dutch Republic). A ruler "too rich and powerful to be a duke but too small and poor to be a king" could not, with his small ancestral territory and very limited resources, play the powerful role he sought in European politics of that time. Early life Kettler was born in Kuldīga (Goldingen). He was the son of Wilhelm Kettler and Duchess Sophie of Prussia, a daughter of Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia, and was a godson of King James I of England. While his father was ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sovkhoz
A sovkhoz ( rus, совхо́з, p=sɐfˈxos, a=ru-sovkhoz.ogg, syllabic abbreviation, abbreviated from , ''sovetskoye khozyaystvo''; ) was a form of state-owned farm or agricultural enterprise in the Soviet Union. It is usually contrasted with kolkhoz, which is a collective-owned farm. Just as the members of a kolkhoz were called "kolkhozniks" or "kolkhozniki" (колхозники), the workers of a sovkhoz were called "sovkhhozniks" or "sovkhozniki" (совхозники). History Soviet state farms started to be created in 1918Padalka, S. "Radhosps (РАДГОСПИ)' . ''Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine''. as an ideological example of "socialist agriculture of the highest order". Kolkhozes, or collective farming, collective farms, were regarded for a long time as an intermediate stage in the transition to the ideal of state farming. While kolkhozy were typically created by combining small individual farms together in a cooperative structure, a sovkhoz would be organi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villages In Selonia
A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighborhoods. Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however, transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape, as a dispersed settlement. In the past, villages were a usual form of community for societies that practice subsistence agriculture and also for some non-agricultural societies. In Great Britain, a hamlet earned the right to be called a village when it built a church.-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to talk of the beginnings of French, that is, when it wa ... ''village'', from Latin ''villāticus'', ultimately from Latin ''villa'' (English ''villa''). C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
