title: Durbe Municipality
text: # Durbe Municipality
  
  Durbe Municipality (Latvian: Durbes novads) is a former municipality in Courland, Latvia. The municipality was formed in 2000 by merging Tadaiķi parish and Durbe town with its countryside territory. In 2009 it absorbed Dunalka parish and Vecpils parish, the administrative centre being Lieģi. As of 2020, the population was 2,601.
  
  Durbe Municipality ceased to exist on 1 July 2021, when it was merged into the newly-formed South Kurzeme Municipality.
  
  