Courland Governorate (lva)

Courland Governorate

Courland Governorate ranks 4,300th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind North Hamgyong Province, Bayswater, and Bandar-e Anzali. Memorable people born in Courland Governorate include Jānis Čakste, Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven, and Alexander von Keyserling. Memorable people who died in Courland Governorate include Juris Alunāns. Courland Governorate has been the birth place of many politicians, and social activists and the death place of many writers. Courland Governorate is located in Latvia.

Courland Governorate, also known as the Province of Courland or Governorate of Kurland, and known from 1795 to 1796 as the Viceroyalty of Courland, was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) and one of the Baltic governorates of the Russian Empire. Its area roughly corresponded to Kurzeme, Zemgale and Sēlija of modern-day Latvia. Read more on Wikipedia