Pitrags
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Pitrags () is a village situated in Kolka Parish, Talsi Municipality, in the Courland region of Latvia, at the mouth of the river Pitraga. It is one of twelve Livonian villages on the '''' - the Livonian Coast.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Pitrags
- Settlement.native_name
- Livonian: Pitrõg
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Pitrago baptistų bažnyčia.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Pitrags Baptist Church
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- Latvia
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- Location in Latvia
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Talsi Municipality
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- Parish
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Kolka Parish
- Settlement.established_title
- First mentioned
- Settlement.established_date
- 1582
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2015
- Settlement.population_total
- 39
- Settlement.timezone
- EET
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 41
- Elevation
- 5
- Image
- Pitrags, 2008.g. 5.aprilis - panoramio.jpg
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- postal code
- 3275
- Commons category
- Pitrags
- P6482
- Pitrags
- P8168
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Pitrags () is a village situated in Kolka Parish, Talsi Municipality, in the Courland region of Latvia, at the mouth of the river Pitraga. It is one of twelve Livonian villages on the '' - the Livonian Coast.
It was founded in the Middle Ages by several brothers who arrived from Saaremaa and settled there. For many years, due to its geographical location on the river, Pitrags was a regional centre of shipbuilding, providing small timber fishing boats for locals and the nearby villages of Saunags and Vaide. During the Soviet period a large fish-smoking plant was located here (closed down in mid-1990s and now converted into a private residence). There is also a small local church and cemetery. Along the dunes runs the site of a narrow gauge railway, an extension of the military railway built to nearby Mazirbe during World War I. The railway was decommissioned in the 1960s, several years after a new strategic wide dirt road was built by the Soviet Army (several years ago this road was asphalted using EU funds).
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