Nereta (; ) is a

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Aizkraukle Municipality Aizkraukle Municipality () is a municipality in Vidzeme, Latvia. Its center is the town of Aizkraukle. The municipality was first formed in 2001 by merging Aizkraukle and Aizkraukle Parish. The population in 2020 was 8,024. As a part of the Admin ...

in the

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Nereta Nereta (; ) is a village in Aizkraukle Municipality in the Selonia region of Latvia.

at GeoNames updated 27/07/2014 The village is located 4 km from the border with Lithuania, on the Dienvidsusēja river (a right tributary of the ...

at GeoNames updated 27/07/2014 The village is located 4 km from the border with Lithuania, on the Dienvidsusēja river (a right tributary of the Nemunėlis). Nereta has hosted the annual 3x3 Latvian heritage summer camp. Nereta had 1,282 residents as of 2006. Nereta the village is surrounded by numerous peat bogs.

History

Nereta is located in the part of

that was subjugated in the 13th century by the Livonian Order. Nereta was first mentioned in historical sources (as Nirica) in 1298. At the southern border of the Livonian Order :de:Kommende Ascheraden, Aizkraukle Command with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania lands, a fortified Nereta Manor, which belonged to the former Commander of the Order Wilhelm of Eferna after the collapse of the Order, ''von Effern''. During times of Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, the ruined wooden building of the Nereta church was restored in 1570, but in 1584–1593. The current :lv:Neretas evaņģēliski luteriskā baznīca, Nereta Lutheran Church stone building was built in 1564. In the year Nereta was called "Narite" by the river Dienvidsusēja. 1596. At the request of Duke Gotthard Kettler, the first Latin school for the children of servants of the manor and rectory was founded in Nereta. 1607. A nursery manor was awarded 300 years a year for the maintenance and hiring of a teacher. Documents from 1672 mention Nereta town, which disappeared in 1709-1711 due to Great Northern War plague outbreak. Four years after the epidemic, only a few people lived in :lv:Neretas muiža, Nereta Manor ( now :lv:Neretaslauki, Neretaslauki). In 1868 the parish house was built. During World War I, German troops built a ''Viesīte narrow-gauge railway'' to supply the front, connecting Nereta with Jēkabpils and Suvainiškis in Lithuania. In 1927, Nereta was granted the status of densely populated (village), and from 1950 to 1990, Nereta had the status of urban village, workers' village (later an urban village). After that, it was the center of the parish Aizkraukle district, but after Administrative divisions of Latvia, administrative-territorial reform in 2009 it became the center of Nereta Municipality.

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Villages in Selonia Jaunjelgava county Populated places in Aizkraukle Municipality {{Latvia-geo-stub