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Piltene Parish District

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Map of the Piltene Parish District with Latvian place names (1859).
Map of the Piltene Parish District with German place names (1854).

The Piltene Parish District (Latvian: Piltenes draudzes novads, German: Kirchspiel Pilten) was an administrative unit in the Piltene District, and after 1818, it became part of the Ventspils apriņķis of the Courland Governorate.[1]

Nowadays, the territory of the Piltene Parish District is part of Ventspils Municipality.

Piltene Parish District Pastorates (1841)

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  • Piltene Church and Pastorate
  • Zlēki Church
  • Ugāle Church
  • Puze Church
  • Rinda Church and Pastorate (Angermünde), including the Pope Church chapel.

References

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  1. ^ von Bienenstamm, H.; Pfingsten, Ernst August (1841). Neue geographisch-statistische Beschreibung des kaiserlich-russischen Gouvernements Kurland, oder der ehemaligen Herzogthümer Kurland und Semgallen, mit dem Stifte Pilten (in German). p. 142.