Krāslava municipality - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Krāslava municipality is a municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

in Latgale

Latgale

Latgale is one of the four historical and cultural regions of Latvia recognised in the Constitution of the Latvian Republic. It is the easternmost region north of the Daugava River...

, Latvia

Latvia

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. The municipality was formed in 2001 by merging Krāslava parish and Krāslava

Kraslava

Krāslava is a major town in Krāslava municipality, in the Latgalia region of eastern Latvia.-History:* Krāslava was an important hillfort on the waterway from Variags to Greeks since early Middle Ages, part of the orthodox Principality of Jersika in 13th century.* In 1558 was mentioned for the...

town. In 2009 it absorbed Auleja parish

Auleja parish

Auleja parish is an administrative unit of the Krāslava municipality, Latvia.- Villages and settlements of Auleja parish :* Auleja...

, Indra parish

Indra parish

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

, Izvalta parish

Izvalta parish

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

, Robežnieki parish

Robežnieki parish

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

, Kaplava parish

Kaplava parish

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

, Kombuļi parish

Kombuļi parish

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

, Piedruja parish

Piedruja parish

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

, Skaista parish

Skaista parish

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

and Ūdrīši parish

Ūdrīši parish

Ūdrīši parish is an administrative unit of the Krāslava municipality, Latvia.- Villages and settlements of Ūdrīši parish :* Augstkalne...

town the administrative centre being Krāslava.

Ethnic composition

As of 1 January 2010 the ethnic composition of the municipality is as follows:

Ethnic group	Number	%
Latvians 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...	8878	44,43 %
Russians Russians The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....	4376	21,90 %
Belarusians Belarusians Belarusians ; are an East Slavic ethnic group who populate the majority of the Republic of Belarus. Introduced to the world as a new state in the early 1990s, the Republic of Belarus brought with it the notion of a re-emerging Belarusian ethnicity, drawn upon the lines of the Old Belarusian...	4215	21,09 %
Poles Poles thumb\|right\|180px\|The state flag of [[Poland]] as used by Polish government and diplomatic authoritiesThe Polish people, or Poles , are a nation indigenous to Poland. They are united by the Polish language, which belongs to the historical Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages of Central Europe...	1672	8,37 %
Ukrainians Ukrainians Ukrainians are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine, which is the sixth-largest nation in Europe. The Constitution of Ukraine applies the term 'Ukrainians' to all its citizens...	271	1,36 %
Others	571	2,86 %

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