Dzelzava is a village in Latvia

Latvia

Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

, Madona district

Madona District

Madona District was an administrative division of Latvia, located in Vidzeme and Latgale regions, in the country's east. Within the district is the highest point in Latvia - Gaiziņkalns. The district also bordered Latvia's largest lake, Lake Lubāns....

. In 2000 in Dzelzava were 375 inhabitants.

In Dzelzava is located Dzelzava estate, built in 1767, in baroque

Baroque

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 style. It was reibuilt after burning in revolution of 1905. By the estate is set a park with many local and foreign trees and bushes. From 1940 to nowadays building is occupied by Dzelzava primary school.

History

The area of Dzelzava was settled sometime within the 8th to 10th century. In the 1930s in the nearby Lake Bakans, Latvian

Latvians

Latvians or Letts are the indigenous Baltic people of Latvia.-History:Latvians occasionally refer to themselves by the ancient name of Latvji, which may have originated from the word Latve which is a name of the river that presumably flowed through what is now eastern Latvia...

 archaeologist Jānis Apals discovered a lake settlement relics. In Obzerkalns was found relics of old Baltic fortress. In surrounding area was found old graveyards. The territory of Dzelzava has been a part of Cesvaine

Cesvaine

Cesvaine is a town in Cesvaine municipality, Vidzeme Region, Latvia. It is home to the Cesvaine Palace, built in 1896 near the ruins of previous medieval castles....

 and Jersika

Jersika

The principality of Jersika was an early medieval principality in eastern modern Latvia. The capital of Jersika was located on a hill fort southeast of Riga.- History :...

 land.

After invasion of German

Germans

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 Crusader

Crusades

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s Dzelzava's territory became a part of Archbishopric of Riga. After Livonian War

Livonian War

The Livonian War was fought for control of Old Livonia in the territory of present-day Estonia and Latvia when the Tsardom of Russia faced a varying coalition of Denmark–Norway, the Kingdom of Sweden, the Union of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland.During the period 1558–1578,...

 the territory was part of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. From 1629-1721 Dzelzava was under the rule of Swedish Empire

Swedish Empire

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, then Russian Empire

Russian Empire

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The center of Dzelzava village started to form after building of Dzelzava estate and its surrounding buildings.

After the declaration of Latvian independence, Dzelzava became a center of Dzelzava parish

Dzelzava parish

- Towns, villages and settlements of Dzelzava parish :*...

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