Adzele

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Adzele , also Atzele (Estonian Aletsi , Russian Очела , Očela , Latin Terra Agzele , ahd . Land tho Adsel ) is a historical landscape in the northeast of today's Latvia .

The core area of ​​Adzele is now administratively divided into the districts Alūksne and Balvi and Viļaka and the Pskow Oblast (Latvian Pleskavas apgabals ).

The land tho Adsel was mentioned in the Livonian Chronicle of Henry of Latvia and in the Younger Livonian Rhyming Chronicle of Bartholomäus Hoeneke . It is mentioned as očela in the Novgorod Chronicle.

The historical name Adzele was the basis for the renaming of the Latvian city Jaunlatgale in Abrene in 1938, which fell to the Russian Soviet Republic as Pytalowo after the annexation by the Soviet Union .

Individual evidence

  1. Arveds Švābe: Talava. In: Sējējs. No. 2, 1936, pp. 179-210
  2. Abrene un Pitalova on mosties.org