Līgatne municipality
Encyclopedia
Līgatne municipality is a municipality
in Vidzeme
, Latvia
. The municipality was formed in 2009 by merging Līgatne parish
and Līgatne
town
the administrative centre being Līgatne.
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 Vidzeme
Vidzeme
Vidzeme is one of the historical and cultural regions of Latvia. Literally meaning "the Middle Land" it is situated in north-central Latvia north of the Daugava River...
, 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...
. The municipality was formed in 2009 by merging Līgatne parish
Līgatne parish
Līgatne parish was an administrative unit of the Cēsis District, Latvia.Pop. 2864 . It covered the area of 160.6 km².By the 2009 administrative reform, this territorial unit was merged into the Līgatne municipality.-References:...
and Līgatne
Ligatne
Līgatne is a town on the Gauja River, in Latvia. The village of Līgatne was built around the paper mill, still extant, on the River Līgatne in the 19th century.-Līgatne Nature Trails:...
town
Town
A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...
the administrative centre being Līgatne.