Aizpute
Sign in to saveAizpute (; historically Polish: Hazenpot) is a town in South Kurzeme Municipality in the Courland region of Latvia, in the valley of the Tebra River, situated northeast of Liepāja.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Aizpute
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_shield
- Aizpute COA.svg
- Settlement.image_flag
- LVA Aizpute flag.png
- Settlement.flag_size
- 150px
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- South Kurzeme Municipality
- Settlement.established_title
- Town rights
- Settlement.established_date
- 1378
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Latvia
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- above
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Latvia
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Juris Grasmanis
- Settlement.blank_name_sec1
- Number of city council members
- Settlement.blank_info_sec1
- 11
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Article
16 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Early History
- Arrival of the Livonian Order (13th century)
- The town of the Courland Cathedral Chapter (14th–16th century)
- Duchy of Courland, District of Pilten (16th–18th century)
- Russian Empire (18th–20th century)
- Latvian War of Independence, World War II (20th century)
- Holocaust
- Geography
- Demographics
- Notable people
- Twin towns — sister cities
- See also
- References
- External links
Aizpute (; historically Polish: Hazenpot) is a town in South Kurzeme Municipality in the Courland region of Latvia, in the valley of the Tebra River, situated northeast of Liepāja.
== Etymology == In a cartographic drawing of Bandava, Aizpute is marked with the name Asseboten, in 13th century writings Asimpute and Asenputte, which later became the German Hasenpoth. The roots of the ancient name of Aizpute seem to be found in the Finno-Ugric languages from the words Ase and Ason, which mean an 'actively inhabited place'. Famous linguist Jānis Endzelīns believed that the origin of the place name is most likely Baltic, possibly derived from the Lithuanian word pùsti ('pamt, tūkt'), meaning 'place behind the hill'.