Aizpute County

Location of Aizpute County within the Courland Governorate

Courland Governorate, 1820

Aizpute County (German: Kreis Hasenpoth, Russian: Газенпотский уезд, Latvian: Aizputes apriņķis) was one of the ten subdivisions of the Courland Governorate of the Russian Empire. Its capital was Aizpute (Hasenpoth). Kreis Hasenpoth was situated in the western part of the governorate (in present-day southwestern Latvia).

Name

	Noun	Adj.
German (Hauptmannschaft)	Hauptmannschaft Hasenpoth	hasenpothsche Hauptmannschaft
German (Kreis)	Kreis Hasenpoth	hasenpothscher Kreis
Russian (гауптманство)		Газенпотское гауптманство
Russian (уезд)		Газенпотский уезд

Demographics

At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Kreis Hasenpoth had a population of 53,209. Of these, 90.4% spoke Latvian, 5.4% German, 2.5% Yiddish, 1.0% Lithuanian, 0.4% Russian, 0.2% Polish and 0.1% Romani as their native language. ^[1]

References

↑ "Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской Империи 1897 г. Распределение населения по родному языку и уездам 50 губерний Европейской России" (in Russian). Демоскоп Weekly. Retrieved 22 December 2013.

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[1] "Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской Империи 1897 г. Распределение населения по родному языку и уездам 50 губерний Европейской России" (in Russian). Демоскоп Weekly. Retrieved 22 December 2013.