Auce (town)
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AUCE TOWN
Region : Zemgale
Municipality : Auce
Official blazon
Sarkanā laukā melns vēzis.
Origin/meaning
The arms were granted in 1925.
Auce, called then Vecauce, was founded in 1843. It started to develop when a railway Riga-Mazeikiai was built.
In 1924 town rights were granted.
The arms show a crayfish, symbolising that the rivers around Auce were rich of crayfishes.
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