Kandava Municipality () is a former municipality in

Courland Courland is one of the Historical Latvian Lands in western Latvia. Courland's largest city is Liepāja, which is the third largest city in Latvia. The regions of Semigallia and Selonia are sometimes considered as part of Courland as they were ...

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. The municipality was formed in 1999 by merging Cēre Parish and

Kandava Kandava (; ; ) is a town in Tukums Municipality, in the Courland region of Latvia. It had a population of 3,656 people as of January 2020. History Livonian Crusade The territory of modern Kandava was inhabited by Finnic tribes until the 10th ce ...

town with its countryside territory. Later it absorbed Matkule Parish, Vāne Parish, Zante Parish and Zemīte Parish the administrative centre being

. On 1 July 2021, Kandava Municipality ceased to exist and its territory was merged into

Tukums Municipality Tukums Municipality () is a Latvian municipality situated partly in the region of Semigallia, partly in Courland and partly in Vidzeme. The municipality was formed in 2009 by merging Degole Parish, Džūkste Parish, Irlava Parish, Jaunsāti P ...

Twin towns – sister cities

Kandava was a member of the ''Charter of European Rural Communities'', a

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association across the

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. ''Charter of European Rural Communities'' * Bienvenida, Spain * Bièvre, Belgium *

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, Italy *

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, Ireland *

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, France * Desborough, England, United Kingdom * Esch, Netherlands * Hepstedt, Germany * Ibănești, Romania *

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, Finland * Kolindros, Greece * Lassee, Austria * Medzev, Slovakia * Moravče, Slovenia *

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, Denmark * Nagycenk, Hungary *

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, Malta *

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, Sweden *

Pano Lefkara Pano Lefkara () is a village on the island of Cyprus famous for its lace, known as lefkaritika in (Greek: λευκαρίτικα) and silver handicrafts. The village takes its name from the white of its silica and limestone: Lefkara is derived fro ...

, Cyprus *

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, Estonia *

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, Portugal * Slivo Pole, Bulgaria * Starý Poddvorov, Czech Republic *

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, Poland *

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, Croatia *

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, Luxembourg *

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, Lithuania ;Other twin towns *

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, Denmark * Saku, Estonia *

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, Lithuania *

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, Sweden

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