Chiisagata-gun (Nagano)

Chiisagata-gun ( Japanese 小 県 郡 ) is a district ( gun ) in Nagano Prefecture on the Japanese main island of Honshu . It has 9,839 inhabitants (as of October 1, 2019) on an area of ​​241.04 km². At present only two communes belong to it: the city ( machi ) Nagawa and the village ( mura ) Aoki .

history

Chiisagata-gun was founded as a modern administrative unit on January 14, 1879 with the establishment of a district administration ( gun'yakusho ). The administrative seat was in Ueda . On April 1, 1889, the "communal system" ( chōsonsei ) was established. Thereafter, Chiisagata-gun belonged to three cities and 32 villages. On October 30, 1912, the village of Maruko became a city, with which Chiisagata-gun now belonged to four cities and 31 villages.

On May 1, 1919, Ueda became a city ( shi ) and no longer belonged to Chiisagata-gun. The number of communes in Chiisata-gun did not decrease significantly until the 1950s. In 1950 three cities and 29 villages belonged to it. Only with the wave of communal amalgamations in the mid-1950s ( shōwa daigappei ) was the number of communes that belonged to Chiisagata-gun, greatly reduced, so that in 1960 only five cities and four villages belonged to Chiisagata-gun. In the 1970s the number decreased to four cities and three villages.

Newer development

Due to the current wave of municipal amalgamations ( heisei daigappei ), the number of associated municipalities decreased from 2004 (foundation of the city of Tōmi ) to 2006 to their present number.