Pagasts Dundagas pagasts Town rights awarded 1950 Elevation 63 m Population 1,682 (2011) | Novads Dundagas novads Mentioned first time 1245 Town rights revoked 1990 Local time Wednesday 2:48 AM | |
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Dundaga (Livonian: Dūoņig) is a village in Courland, Latvia. In 2009 the village became the administrative centre of Dundaga municipality.
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Map of Dundaga, Dundaga parish, LV-3270, Latvia
Dundaga is known for its castle, constructed by the Archbishopric of Riga in the late 13th century. From the 16th until 1918, Dundaga Castle (formerly Dundagen) was the centre of the largest private estate in Courland, belonging to the Baron Osten-Sacken (Russian: Остен-Сакен) family, an important local Baltic-German noble dynasty.
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Dundaga Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA