Vaiņode

Key facts

Settlement.official_name: Vaiņode
Settlement.settlement_type: Village
Settlement.image_skyline: Monumental stone in Vainode.JPG
Settlement.image_caption: Stone marking the 90th anniversary of Latvian independence
Settlement.pushpin_map: Latvia
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Vaiņode's location in Latvia
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Municipality
Settlement.subdivision_name1: South Kurzeme
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Parish
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Vaiņode
Settlement.established_title: First mentioned
Settlement.established_date: 1253
Settlement.unit_pref: Imperial
Settlement.area_total_km2: 8.5
Settlement.population_as_of: 2015
Settlement.population_total: 1759

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Vaiņode (formerly ; ) is a village in Vaiņode Parish, South Kurzeme Municipality in the Courland region of Latvia. The village developed around a railway station after 1871 between Liepāja and Mažeikiai.

== History == Vaiņode (Bāta) was first mentioned in historical sources in 1253. The settlement was formed on the land of the Vaiņode Manor () after construction of the Libau–Romny Railway in 1871. A summer cottage village Bāta was formed on the land of Lielbāta manor.

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