Talk:Metsepole

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Former countries, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of defunct states and territories (and their subdivisions). If you would like to participate, please join the project.Former countriesWikipedia:WikiProject Former countriesTemplate:WikiProject Former countriesformer country articles

Estonia Low‑importance

Metsepole is part of WikiProject Estonia, a project to maintain and expand Estonia-related subjects on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.EstoniaWikipedia:WikiProject EstoniaTemplate:WikiProject EstoniaEstonia articles

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

To-do list:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : WikiProject Estonia/Missing articles
Assess : Rate each tagged article by quality and importance to the WikiProject if it has not been done. (See Category:Unassessed Estonia articles)
Infobox : Add infoboxes to articles without it
Maintain : Portal:Estonia
Photo : Upload and/or add a photo to articles without it (See Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Estonia)
Stubs : Add info to stub-articles and check for start-class.

Latvia Low‑importance

	Latvia portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Latvia, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Latvia related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.LatviaWikipedia:WikiProject LatviaTemplate:WikiProject LatviaLatvia articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

[Untitled][edit]

Metsepole was county in today's Northwest Vidzeme covering less than half of territory of Vidzeme's Livonians, not all of their territory as seems from this article and not stretching to Gauja and Daugava rivers. Turaida was another county. Puuce (talk) 10:31, 10 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Depopolated land?[edit]

Which sources claim those things?

During the Livonian Crusade, once prosperous Metsepole was devastated, and the whole country was almost completely depopulated. This vacuum was filled by Latgallians, and Semigallians, who started to move into the area around 1220.[citation needed]

After those attacks, a plague started and as a result Metsepole was left depopulated and plundered.

Even according to The Chronicle of Henry of Livonia in 1223 was another raid to Metsepole and attacking troops found lot people and loot. From "almost completely depopulated" area? Minnekon (talk) 19:27, 21 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]