Sīkrags
Sign in to saveSīkrags (Livonian: Sīkrõg) is a small village in Kolka Parish, Talsi Municipality, Latvia. It is one of the twelve Livonian villages on Līvõd rānda - the Livonian Coast and one of the oldest.
Key facts
- Settlement.native_name
- Livonian: Sīkrõg
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +2
- Settlement.timezone_DST
- EEST
- Settlement.utc_offset_DST
- +3
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 4
- Settlement.official_name
- Sīkrags
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Latvia
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Latvia
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Talsi Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Parish
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Kolka Parish
- Settlement.established_title
- First mentioned
- Settlement.established_date
- 1387
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2015
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Sīkrags (Livonian: Sīkrõg) is a small village in Kolka Parish, Talsi Municipality, Latvia. It is one of the twelve Livonian villages on Līvõd rānda - the Livonian Coast and one of the oldest.
Sīkrags was mentioned in writing as early as 1387 and served as one of the most important small ports in northern Kurzeme during the 17th century. During World War I, German troops built a station of the Stende-Ventspils narrow gauge railway near the village. During the Soviet occupation of Latvia Sīkrags was one of the few places on the sealed-off Livonian Coast where local fishing was permitted. In 1955, a small fish processing plant was built in the village, but was closed ten years later, dealing a blow to the growth of the village.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sīkrags” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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