Grobiņa Municipality
Introduction '''Grobiņa Municipality''' () is a former municipality in Courland, Latvia. The municipality was formed in 2009 by merging Bārta Parish, Gavieze Parish, Grobiņa Parish, Medze Parish and the town of Grobiņa with the administrative centre being Grobiņa. The population in 2020 was 8,347.Grobiņa Municipality ceased to exist on 1 July 2021, when it was merged into the newly-formed South Kurzeme Municipality.
Notable countrymen *  (''Georg Sigismund von Bilterling'', 1733-1803) — pastor and teacher*  (1895-1955) — politician*  (1889-1947) — actor* Andrejs Freimanis (1914-1994) — soldier*  (1882-1951) — admiral* Eduard Schmidt von der Launitz ('' Eduard Schmidt von der Launitz '', 1796-1869) — German sculptor*  (1882-1941) — politician* Fricis Rokpelnis (1909-1969) — writer
See also * Administrative divisions of Latvia (2009)
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