Piltene is a town in Ventspils Municipality, in the Courland region of Latvia, with a population of 909 in 2020. Its Livonian name is Piltõn, its German name Pilten and its Polish name Piltyń. King Valdemar II of Denmark erected a castle on the site in 1220, and the ruins of Piltene Castle still stand there. The place gave its name to the Bishopric of Courland, later the Bishopric of Pilten, which passed from the Teutonic Order to Denmark in 1560, to Poland-Lithuania in 1585 and to the Duke of Courland in 1660. Annexed by Russia in 1795, it was fully incorporated into Courland in 1818.
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is a town in Ventspils Municipality, in the Courland region of Latvia
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is a town in Ventspils Municipality, in the Courland region of Latvia
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