Mazsalaca
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Mazsalaca (; , , ) is a town in Valmiera Municipality in the Vidzeme region of Latvia. It has 1269 inhabitants. The town is also the extraterritorial center of Mazsalaca Parish.
Key facts
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- Mazsalaca
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- Town
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- Mazsalaca COA.svg
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- Baznīcas iela (Mazsalaca).jpg
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- Baznīcas Street in Mazsalaca
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- Country
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- Municipality
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- Valmiera Municipality
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- Town rights
- Settlement.established_date
- 1928
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- Latvia
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- bottom
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- 300
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- Location in Latvia
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- Number of city council members
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- 9
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- auto
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- Postal code
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Encyclopedic overview
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Mazsalaca (; , , ) is a town in Valmiera Municipality in the Vidzeme region of Latvia. It has 1269 inhabitants. The town is also the extraterritorial center of Mazsalaca Parish.
==History== The area includes the largest known Stone Age burial site in Northern Europe and was first settled ca. 5000 BC. The present town began to develop in 1864, when a bridge over the Salaca river was constructed.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mazsalaca” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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