Tērvete Municipality () is a former
municipality
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in
Semigallia
Semigallia is one of the Historical Latvian Lands located to the south of the Daugava and to the north of the Saule region of Samogitia. The territory is split between Latvia and Lithuania, previously inhabited by the Semigallian Baltic tri ...
,
Latvia
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. The municipality was formed in 2002 by
merging Augstkalne parish
Augstkalne Parish () is an administrative unit of Dobele Municipality in the Semigallia region of Latvia. At the beginning of 2014, the population of the parish was 1067. The administrative center is the village of .
Towns, villages and settleme ...
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Bukaiši parish and
Tērvete parish
Tērvete Parish () is an administrative unit of Dobele Municipality in the Semigallia region of Latvia. At the beginning of 2014, the population of the parish was 2009. The administrative center is Zelmeņi village.
Towns, villages and settlem ...
, the administrative centre being
Zelmeņi
Zelmeņi is a village in the Tērvete Parish of Dobele Municipality in the Semigallia region of 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 ...
. The population in 2020 was 3,302.
On 1 July 2021, Tērvete Municipality ceased to exist and its territory was merged into
Dobele Municipality
Dobele Municipality () is a municipality in the historical region of Zemgale, and the Zemgale Planning Region in Latvia. The municipality was formed in 2009 by merging Dobele town and the Annenieki, Auri, Bērze, Biksti, Dobele, Jaunbēr ...
.
Geography
The largest rivers are
Auce
Auce (; ; ) is a town in Dobele Municipality, in the Semigallia region of Latvia. It is situated near the Lithuanian border.
History
Before the 13th century, the territory of Auce was a part of a Semigallians, Semigallian Spārnene county.
Aft ...
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Ālave,
Govaine,
Krievaine,
Reņģe,
Skujaine,
Svēpaine,
Svētaine,
Svete,
Tērvete
Tērvete (liv. ''Terwenden'', ) is a village in Tērvete Parish, Dobele Municipality in the Semigallia region of Latvia. It is famous for the historic hillfort built for the kings of Western Semigallia (Zemgale) in the Middle Ages.
History
Acc ...
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History
The county of ''Tērvete'' is located in the territory of the ancient
Semigallian Territory, which was first mentioned in the
Livonian Chronicle of Henry
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in the XXIII, section 4, in the context of the events of 1219, as the "province called Tervete" (Latin: provincia, que Thervetene vocatur ).
See also
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Administrative divisions of Latvia
The current administrative division of Latvia came into force on 1 July 2021.
On 10 June 2020, the Saeima approved a municipal reform that would reduce the 110 municipalities and nine republic cities to 43 local government units consisting of 36 ...
References
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Former municipalities of Latvia
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