| Daugavpils county | |||||||
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| County ofLatvia | |||||||
| 1621–1949 | |||||||
 Map in 1940 | |||||||
| Capital | Daugavpils | ||||||
| History | |||||||
• Established | 1621 | ||||||
• Disestablished | 1949 | ||||||
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Daugavpils county (Latvian:Daugavpils apriņķis) was a historiccounty in theVitebsk Governorate, and in theRepublic of Latvia dissolved during the administrative territorial reform of theLatvian SSR in 1949. Its administrative centre wasDaugavpils.
Established in 1621 as one of the subdivisions of theInflanty Voivodeship (powiat dyneburski) of thePolish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1772, after theFirst Partition of Poland it became one ofuyezds ofPolotsk Governorate (Russian:Динабургский уезд, 1776—1796), laterBelarusian Governorate (1796—1802) andVitebsk Governorate (1802—1917) of theRussian Empire. In 1893, it was renamed to Dvinsk county.
On 31 December 1917 Daugavpils county, populated by mostlyLatvians were transferred toGovernorate of Livonia, becoming a part of the Latvian Soviet autonomy ofIskolat and a part of theLatvian Socialist Soviet Republic on 17 December 1918. After signing of theLatvian–Soviet Peace Treaty, Daugavpils county was fully incorporated into theRepublic of Latvia.
In 1949, during theSoviet occupation of Latvia, Daugavpils county was merged withIlūkste county and transformed to theDaugavpils district of theLatvian SSR.
At the time of theRussian Empire Census of 1897, Dvinsky Uyezd had a population of 237,023. Of these, 39.0% spokeLatvian, 20.0%Yiddish, 15.3%Russian, 13.8%Belarusian, 9.1%Polish, 1.8%German, 0.4%Lithuanian, 0.2%Tatar, 0.1%Romani and 0.1%Ukrainian as their native language.[1]
