Valmiera was a member of the Hanseatic League from the 14th – 16th centuries.

During the Great Northern War Valmiera was destroyed and burned down in 1702.

Johann Eduard Erdmann ( 13 June 1805, Wolmar, Russian Empire ( now Valmiera, Latvia ) – 12 June 1892, Halle, German Empire ) was a German philosophical writer.

The Valmiera district () was an administrative division of Latvia, located in the Vidzeme region, in the country's north-east.

Its administrative center was Valmiera.

Jānis Daliņš ( 5 November 1904 in Valmiera, Livonian Governorate – 11 June 1978 in Melbourne, Australia ) was a Latvian athlete who competed in race walking.

Andris Piebalgs was born on 17 September 1957 in Valmiera, Latvia.

Earlier in his career, while Latvia was still part of the Soviet Union, Andris Piebalgs worked as a teacher and was the Headmaster of the 1st Secondary School of Valmiera ( 1980 – 1990 ).

Valmiera (; ) is the largest city of the historical Vidzeme region, Latvia, with a total area of 18. 1 km².

It is the center of the Valmiera District.

As of 2002, Valmiera had a population of 27, 323, and in 2008 – 27, 569.

Valmiera lies on both banks of the Gauja River.

Valmiera and its surroundings have been one of the longest-inhabited regions of Latvia.

Valmiera largely followed the history of northern Livonia.

Valmiera is the de facto cultural and administrative centre of Vidzeme.

Valmiera is an important industrial centre.

The dominating economic branches in Valmiera are the food industry ( milk, meat, and grain ), fibreglass production, metalworking, wood processing and furniture producing.

It bordered Estonia in the north, the former districts of Riga in the south and Valmiera in the east, and the Gulf of Riga in the west.

Daliņš continues to remain a well known name in Latvia, with the stadium and a street in Valmiera retaining his name to this day.

It roughly corresponds to the former Alūksne, Cēsis, Gulbene, Limbaži, Madona, Valka, Valmiera districts and parts of Aizkraukle, Ogre and Riga districts north of Daugava river.

South of Valga and Valka, it turns west towards Valmiera, continuing southwest near Cēsis and Sigulda.

But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

It was her first smile.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.