Valka County

Valka County
Valka County
A country	Russian empire
Province	Livonia province
County town	Valk (Valka)
Population ( 1897 )	120 585 people
Area	5,298.7 mile²
Educated	1745
Abolished

Valka County ( Latvian: Valkas apriņķis ; German: Walksche Kreis ) - the administrative unit of the Livonia province of the Russian Empire , then the Republic of Latvia , which existed in 1745-1949. Center - the city of Valk (Valka) .

Content

1 History
2 population
- 2.1 National composition
3 Administrative divisions
4 notes
5 Links

History

The county was formed in 1745 as part of the Riga province . In 1796, after the transformation of Riga governorship, Valka county became part of the Livonia province ^[2] . In 1920, the southern part of the county was transferred to the independent Republic of Latvia . After Latvia joined the USSR ( 1940 ) until 1949, the county was part of the Latvian SSR .

Population

According to the 1897 census, the county's population was 120,585 people, including 10,922 inhabitants in Valka ^[1] .

National composition

The national composition of the census of 1897 ^[3] :

Latvians - 106 016 people (87.9%),
Estonians - 8714 people (7.2%),
Germans - 2536 people. (2.1%),
Russians - 1592 people (1.3%),
Jews - 1295 people (1.1%)

Administrative Division

In 1913 there were 47 volosts in the county: ^[4]

Adzelskaya - them. deputy Adzel
Adlenskaya - mustache Adlen
Alsvigskaya - mustache Alswig
Annenskaya - mustache Annengof,
Bellavskaya - mustache Kortenhof,
Bilken - mustache Pausul,
Blumenskaya - Blumenhof manor,
Vitsemskaya - mustache Itzem,
Valka - mustache Wrangelskaya
Golgovskaya - mustache Golgovsky,
Goldbek - mustache Goldback
Druven - Druven Manor,
Durenskaya - mustache Durengof
Yertsenskaya - mustache Ene
Zeltinskaya - mustache Zeltin
Zemerskaya - mustache Zemershof,
Zinolenskaya - mustache Zinolen
Ilsenskaya - mustache Ilsen
Kalnemoisei - mustache Novo-Kalnemoise,
Karkelskoe - mustache Leias-Pled,
Laitsenskaya-Staro - mustache Staro Leicen,
Lasberg - Fianden Manor,
Leiskaya - pos. Lagof,
Lellugazhskaya - mustache Untin

Lizumskaya - Leeson Manor,
Litten - Manor Littin ,
Lugazhskaya - mustache Silmurinsk,
Malupskaya - mustache Maloop ,
Marienburg - manor deputy. Marienburg
Mereskaya - mustache Mergof ,
Novo-Valekskaya - mustache Novo-Sakenhof,
Novo-Gulbenskaya - mustache Novo-Schwaneburg ,
Novo-Laicenskaya - mustache Novo-Laicen ,
Omelnaya - mustache Gomeln,
Paltzmar - the manor of Paltzmar ,
Peddelskaya - Manor Peddel,
Planskaya - mustache Sarkan
Rausenskaya - Rausenhof manor,
Svartskaya - Adzel-Schwarzenhof Manor,
Sarbigalskaya - Palzmar Manor,
Smiltene - them. deputy Smiltene
Soorska - mustache Sonia Velam,
Stomerskaya - mustache Stomerze,
Tirzenskaya - them. deputy Thiersen
Trikatenskaya - them. deputy Tricaten
Evelskaya - mustache Pavulen
Ermeskaya - mustache Paugur-Zhegur.

Notes

Links

Valk // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.

[Демоскоп_Weekly-1] ¹ ² First General Census of the Russian Empire in 1897. Livonia province

[2] A. Oranovsky. Materials for geography and statistics of Russia: Courland province. Petersburg, 1862.

[3] First general census of the population of the Russian Empire in 1897. Distribution of the population according to their native language. Valka County

[4] Volostnaya, stanichnaya, rural, municipality governing and administration, as well as police stations throughout Russia with the designation of their location . - Kyiv: Publishing House of the L.A. Fish, 1913.