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    Ashmyany or Oshmyany is a city in Grodno Region, Belarus. It is located 50 kilometres (31 mi) from Vilnius in Lithuania, and serves as the administrative...
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    Ashmyany District or Ašmiany District (Belarusian: Ашмянскі раён, romanized: Ashmyanski rajon; Russian: Ошмянский район, romanized: Oshmyansky rayon) is...
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  • The Battle of Ashmyany or Ašmena (Lithuanian: Ašmenos mūšis) was fought on 8 December 1432 at Ashmyany between the armies of Švitrigaila and Sigismund...
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  • FC Oshmyany (redirect from FC Ashmyany)
    FC Oshmyany was a Belarusian football club based in Ashmyany (Oshmyany), Grodno Oblast. The club was founded in 2012 as Slavyanin Minsk and was originally...
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    family of the Counts Pierzchała-Umiastowski. He was marshal of szlachta in Ashmyany. His property was: Żemłosław, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, now Žamyslaŭĺ [be]...
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    of Vileyka, Ashmyany, Braslaw, Dzisna, Pastavy, and Sventiany districts. In January 1940, it consisted of 22 districts: Astravyets, Ashmyany, Braslaw, Vidzy...
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    North-Eastern and the South-Western dialects are separated by a hypothetical line Ashmyany–Minsk–Babruysk–Gomel, with the area of the Middle Belarusian dialect group...
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    Vysokaye Kosava Lida Slonim Vawkavysk Smarhon Navahrudak Masty Shchuchyn Ashmyany Skidzyelʹ Byarozawka Iwye Dzyatlava Svislach Astravyets Sharkawshchyna...
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    first husband, also Jewish, Wulf Aizikovich Taborissky, a tradesman from Ashmyany, who had left the country long before both of them were born, in 1887....
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    in harsh conditions. They were deported in other ghettos in Vilnius and Ashmyany in 1942. Nathan Mileikowsky, a Zionist rabbi, grandfather of Benjamin Netanyahu...
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    operations were advanced from Vilna towards Nemenčinė, Molėtai in the north and Ashmyany in the east, the location of Bagration on his way to Minsk. Bagration ordered...
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    Jacob Saphir (category People from Ashmyany)
    descent who settled in Jerusalem during his early life. Saphir was born in Ashmyany in the Russian Empire (now Belarus) and immigrated to Ottoman Palestine...
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    a Belarusian writer and art historian. Victor Martinovich was born in Ashmyany, Belarus. In 1999 he graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Belarusian...
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    selsoviets, 12 cities, 6 city municipalities, and 21 urban-type settlements. Ashmyany District Astravyets District Byerastavitsa District Dzyatlava District...
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    Abba Kovner (category People from Ashmyany)
    Israel Prize in 1970. Abba (Abel) Kovner was born on 14 March 1918 in Ashmyany (now in Belarus). His parents were Rochel (Rosa) Taubman and Israel Kovner...
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  • Maravillas de Jesús 1891   1974   Blessed Michael Sopocko 1888 Juszewszczyzna, Ashmyany, Poland 1975 Białystok, Poland Priest, spiritual director of Saint Faustina...
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  • Yelʹsk District, Gomel Region Zyalyony Bor, Grodno Region, a village in Ashmyany District, Grodno Region Zyalyony Bor, Smalyavichy District, an urban-type...
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    Halshany (category Ashmyany District)
    Polish: Holszany; Yiddish: אלשאן, romanized: Olshan) is an agrotown in Ashmyany District, Grodno Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center...
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    family. The family also owned land in the folwark estate in Kamenka near Ashmyany, Belarus. The family set forth a detailed history of the members of family...
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  • Švitrigaila and Sigismund Kęstutaitis is fought near the town of Oszmiana (Ashmyany), launching the most active phase of the civil war in the Grand Duchy of...
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    Lithuanian: Barūnai) is a village in Belarus, not far from the town of Ashmyany. In the 18th and 19th centuries the local Basilian monastery was famous...
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    Olelkowicz Słucka. Radziwiłłs also expanded their possessions with Brest, Ashmyany, Krychau, Lida, Mazyr and other administrative territories (starostwos)...
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    and historian. Jan Stankievič was born in the village Arlianiaty near Ashmyany. During World War I, Stankievič was drafted into the army of the Russian...
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  • in the southern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was Ashmyany (Oshmyany). At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Oshmyansky...
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    Sopoćko Father Michał Sopoćko Priest Born 1 November 1888 Juszewszczyzna, Ashmyany, Russian Empire Died 15 February 1975(1975-02-15) (aged 86) Białystok,...
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  • Mikulishki (category Ashmyany District)
    romanized: Mikuliški; Russian: Микулишки; Russian: Mikuliszki) is a village in Ashmyany District, Grodno Region, Belarus. It is situated on the Merkys River. In...
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    mentioned in 1460 as a borough center of the Vileyka Starostwo of the Ashmyany county in Grand Duchy of Lithuania. 1635 – Władysław IV Vasa bestowed Vileyka...
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    Xawery Czernicki (category People from Ashmyany District)
    (Giedeikiai) in the Oshmyansky Uyezd of the Vilna Governorate (present-day Ashmyany District. After graduating from a local gymnasium in 1901, Czernicki joined...
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  • Švitrigaila after he was deposed. However, after being captured in the Battle of Ashmyany, he switched sides and supported Sigismund Kęstutaitis managing to retain...
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    000 people moved there. They came from different areas of the Kresy — Ashmyany, Stanislawow, Równe, Lwów, Brody, Dzyatlava District, and Ternopil. Altogether...
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