Place:Gulbene, Latvia

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NameGulbene
Alt namesGulbene County
Gulbenesource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Gulbene districtsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Gulbenes rajonssource: Wikipedia
Gulbenskiy Rayonsource: NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
TypeNational District
Coordinates57.167°N 26.667°E
Located inLatvia
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Gulbene
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Gulbene District was an administrative division of Latvia, located in the Vidzeme region, in the country's north-east. It was organized into a city and thirteen parishes, each with a local government authority. The main city in the district was Gulbene.

In Gulbene, a Baltic single passage narrow-gauge railroad, Gulbene-Aluksne, was renovated and started to operate in 2005.

Gulbene has a basketball team, ASK/Buki-Gulbene.

Districts were eliminated during the administrative-territorial reform in 2009.

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