Tērvete municipality
Encyclopedia
Tērvete municipality is a municipality
in Zemgale, Latvia
. The municipality was formed in 2002 by merging Augstkalne parish, Bukaiši parish and Tērvete parish; the administrative centre being Zelmeņi
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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 Zemgale, 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 2002 by merging Augstkalne parish, Bukaiši parish and Tērvete parish; the administrative centre being Zelmeņi
Zelmeņi
Zelmeņi is a village in and the centre of Tērvete municipality and Tērvete parish, Latvia....
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