Tuckum County

Location of Tuckum County within the Courland Governorate

Courland Governorate, 1820

Tuckum County (German: Kreis Tuckum, Latvian: Tukuma apriņķis, Russian: Туккумский уезд) was one of the ten counties of the Russian Empire located in the Courland Governorate. Its capital was Tukums (Tuckum). Tuckum County was situated in the western part of the governorate (in present-day western Latvia).

Demographics

At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Kreis Tuckum had a population of 51,076. Of these, 89.0% spoke Latvian, 5.3% Yiddish, 4.3% German, 0.5% Lithuanian, 0.4% Russian, 0.2% Romani and 0.2% Polish 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.