{{Short description|16th–20th century county in Latvia}} thumb|The county within Latvia in 1940 thumb|Bauskas apriņķis on the map of Latvia (1938). thumb|Bauske County on the map of Courland Governorate (1820). '''Bauska county''' ({{langx|lv|Bauskas apriņķis}}, {{Langx|de|Kreis Bauske}}, {{Langx|ru|Бауский уезд}}) was a historic county of the Courland Governorate and of the Republic of Latvia. Its capital was Bauska (''Bauske'').
== History == The Captaincy of Bauske ({{Langx|de|Hauptmannschaft Bauske}}) was founded in 1617 as a subdivision of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia. In 1795, the Duchy was incorporated into the Russian Empire, and in 1819 Bauske County (''Kreis Bauske'') became one of the ten counties of the Courland Governorate.
After establishment of the Republic of Latvia in 1918, the ''Bauskas apriņķis''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.letonika.lv/groups/default.aspx?q=apri%C5%86%C4%B7is&s=0&g=2&r=10621033|title=Letonika.lv. Vārdnīcas - Latviešu—angļu vārdnīca. Apriņķis = district or county|website=www.letonika.lv|access-date=2019-10-14}}</ref> existed until 1949, when the Council of Ministers of the Latvian SSR split it into the newly created districts (''rajons'') of Bauska and Baldone (dissolved in 1959).
==Demographics== At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Kreis Bauske had a population of 50,547. Of these, 87.4% spoke Latvian, 6.0% German, 4.3% Yiddish, 1.1% Lithuanian, 0.5% Russian, 0.4% Romani and 0.2% Polish as their native language.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/rus_lan_97_uezd.php?reg=644|title=Первая всеобщая перепись населения Российской Империи 1897 г. Распределение населения по родному языку и уездам 50 губерний Европейской России|publisher=Демоскоп Weekly|language=Russian|accessdate=22 December 2013}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category|Kreis Bauske}}
{{List of former Latvian counties and districts}}
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Category:Counties of Latvia Category:Captaincies of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia Category:Uezds of Courland Governorate Category:Bauska county