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Sēja Municipality

municipality of Latvia between 2009 and 2021

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 11, 2024
Entity authorityQ2299447 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sēja Municipality (Latvian: Sējas novads) was a former municipality in Vidzeme, Latvia. The municipality was formed in 2006 by reorganization of Sēja Parish; the administrative centre being Loja. The population in 2020 was 2,156.

On 1 July 2021, Sēja Municipality ceased to exist and its territory was merged into Saulkrasti Municipality as Sēja Parish.

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“Sēja Municipality” enters the record as municipality of Latvia between 2009 and 2021. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sēja, Municipality and municipality can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2020, 2021—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2009-07-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sēja, Municipality and municipality.
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“Sēja Municipality” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Sēja, Municipality and municipality provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 11, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q2299447. Authority coordinates are 57.153, 24.644. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2020 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sēja Municipality” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.