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Smarhon District
Smarhon district or Smarhoń district (; ) is a districts of Belarus, district (raion) of Grodno region in Belarus. The administrative center is Smarhon. As of 2024, it has a population of 48,464. Historically the district's center Smarhon was part of the Vilnius Voivodeship within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania until 1795. Forty percent of the names of Smarhon district's settlements have remained of Lithuanian origin, while residents of Smarhon once spoke in the Eastern Aukštaitija, Aukštaitian-Vilnius, Vilnian dialect of Lithuanian language. Main sights * Ahinski Manor in Zaliessie Notable residents * Adam Stankievič (1882, Arlianiaty village – 1949), Belarusian Roman Catholic priest, politician and writer, a Gulag prisoner * Jan Stankievič (1891, Arlianiaty village – 1976), Belarusian politician, linguist, historian and philosopher * Antoni Leszczewicz (1890, Abramaǔščyna – 1943), beautified Marian Father and Roman Catholic priest, victim of the Nazis * Andr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Districts Of Belarus
A district or raion (, , ''rayony''; , , ''rajony'')According to thInstruction on Latin Transliteration of Geographical Names of the Republic of Belarus, Decree of the State Committee on Land Resources, Surveying and Cartography of the Republic of Belarus dated 23.11.2000 No. 15recommended for use by the Working Group on Romanization of Belarusian, Romanization Systems of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) — . See also: Instruction on transliteration of Belarusian geographical names with letters of Latin script; Romanization of Belarusian. in Belarus is the second-level administrative division in the country which are subordinate to regions of Belarus, regions (also known as oblasts). List of districts Brest region Gomel region Grodno region Minsk region Mogilev region Vitebsk region See also *Regions of Belarus, 1st level subdivision *Rural councils of Belarus, 3rd level subdivision References External links {{Articles on se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithuania
Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and the Russian exclave, semi-exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest, with a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Sweden to the west. Lithuania covers an area of , with a population of 2.89 million. Its capital and largest city is Vilnius; other major cities include Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai and Panevėžys. Lithuanians who are the titular nation and form the majority of the country's population, belong to the ethnolinguistic group of Balts and speak Lithuanian language, Lithuanian. For millennia, the southeastern shores of the Baltic Sea were inhabited by various Balts, Baltic tribes. In the 1230s, Lithuanian lands were united for the first time by Mindaugas, who formed the Kingdom of Lithuania on 6 July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Tsikota
Archmandrite Andrei Tsikota MIC ( zh, 祁高德, , Andrej Cikota, , also Andrew Cikoto;Servant of God Archmandrite Andrew Cikoto (1891-1952) - Biography at the official website 5 December 1891, Vilno Governorate - 11 February 1952, ) was a |
Antoni Leszczewicz
Antoni Leszczewicz (; 30 September 1890 – 18 February 1943) was a Polish-Belarusian Marian Father and Roman Catholic priest. One of the 108 Martyrs of World War II, he was a missionary in China for two decades in the interwar period, later joining the Congregation of Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception before being burnt to death in 1943. Leszczewicz was born in 30 September 1890 in Abramaǔščyna 1 to Jan and Karolina Leszczewicz (). He was educated at a gymnasium in Saint Petersburg, and later studied at a secondary school attached to the Church of St. Catherine. In 1909, he entered the seminary of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mohilev, located in Saint Petersburg. There, he was ordained to the diaconate and was later sent to the Saint Petersburg Roman Catholic Theological Academy for specialized studies. He was ordained a priest on 13 April 1914, either by Wincenty Kluczyński or by Jan Cieplak. After his ordination, Leszczewicz served as a vicar in Irk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Stankievič
Jan Stankievič (26 November 1891 – 16 July 1976, known by the diminutive Janka) was a Belarusian politician, linguist, and historian. Biography Jan Stankievič was born in the village Arlianiaty near Ashmyany. During World War I, Stankievič was drafted into the army of the Russian Empire. Starting in 1917–1918, he began to actively participate in activities of Belarusian national organizations. Jan Stankievič graduated from the Vilnia Belarusian Gymnasium in 1921 and the Charles University in Prague in 1926, and became a Doctor of Slavonic Philology and History. At this time he also married Czech-born Mary Novak in Vilnius at a ceremony officiated by his Arlianiaty cousin, the Roman Catholic priest, Adam Stankievič. Between 1928 and 1932 he worked as a Belarusian language professor at the University of Warsaw, and from 1927 to 1938 at the University of Vilnius. Between 1928 and 1930, Stankievič was a member of the Sialanskaja (Farmers') party in the Polish Sejm, re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gulag
The Gulag was a system of Labor camp, forced labor camps in the Soviet Union. The word ''Gulag'' originally referred only to the division of the Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies, Soviet secret police that was in charge of running the forced labor camps from the 1930s to the early 1950s during Joseph Stalin's rule, but in English literature the term is popularly used for the system of forced labor throughout the Soviet era. The abbreviation GULAG (ГУЛАГ) stands for "Гла́вное управле́ние исправи́тельно-трудовы́х лагере́й" (Main Directorate of Correctional Labour Camps), but the full official name of the agency #Etymology, changed several times. The Gulag is recognized as a major instrument of political repression in the Soviet Union. The camps housed both ordinary criminals and political prisoners, a large number of whom were convicted by simplified procedures, such as NKVD troikas or other instruments of extra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Stankievič
Adam Stankievič (, , January 6, 1892 – November 29, 1949) was a Belarusian Roman Catholic priest, politician and writer. Stankievič was one of ideologists of the Belarusian Christian democratic movement in the early 20th century. Adam Stankievič was born in Arlianiaty (now in Hrodna Voblast), near Ashmyany. In 1914 he graduated from a priest seminary in Vilna (Vilnius in Lithuanian). Adam Stankievič was one of the founders of the Belarusian Christian Democratic Union and the Belarusian Christian Democracy. He was one of the first priests to use Belarusian language in church services. In December 1919 Adam Stankievič became member of the exiled Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic. He was an active member of the Belarusian national movement in Poland-controlled West Belarus. In 1922 he was elected to the Sejm as member of the Bloc of National Minorities. Unlike his fellow-villager, the notable West Belarusian politician and scientist Jan Stankievič, Adam refused ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahinski Manor In Zaliessie
The Ahinski Manor () is an early-nineteenth-century country house located in the village of Zaliessie (also Zalesse), Smarhon district in Belarus. Early years of the estate The estate was originally acquired by the Ahinski (Oginski) family in the early eighteenth century. At that time it included a wooden palace, farmyard, pond, mill and a brewery. It had passed through several generations until the early nineteenth century when it was bequeathed to Michał Kleofas Ogiński. Under ownership of Michał Kleofas Ogiński Michał Kleofas Ogiński, who had been in exile since the defeat of the Kościuszko uprising, returned to the Russian Empire in 1802, following an amnesty by the Tzar. He settled in the Zaliessie estate and began construction of a new stone manor house in a classicist style by architect . The works completed by 1815 and included a park in the style of Romanticism with trails and bridges across the local river. Under the ownership of Ogiński the manor be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithuanian Language
Lithuanian (, ) is an East Baltic languages, East Baltic language belonging to the Baltic languages, Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family. It is the language of Lithuanians and the official language of Lithuania as well as one of the official languages of the European Union. There are approximately 2.8 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 1 million speakers elsewhere. Around half a million inhabitants of Lithuania of non-Lithuanian background speak Lithuanian daily as a second language. Lithuanian is closely related to neighbouring Latvian language, Latvian, though the two languages are not mutually intelligible. It is written in a Latin script. In some respects, some linguists consider it to be the most conservative (language), conservative of the existing Indo-European languages, retaining features of the Proto-Indo-European language that had disappeared through development from other descendant languages. History Among Indo-European languag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilnius
Vilnius ( , ) is the capital of and List of cities in Lithuania#Cities, largest city in Lithuania and the List of cities in the Baltic states by population, most-populous city in the Baltic states. The city's estimated January 2025 population was 607,667, and the Vilnius urban area (which extends beyond the city limits) has an estimated population of 747,864. Vilnius is notable for the architecture of its Vilnius Old Town, Old Town, considered one of Europe's largest and best-preserved old towns. The city was declared a World Heritage Site, UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994. The architectural style known as Vilnian Baroque is named after the city, which is farthest to the east among Baroque architecture, Baroque cities and the largest such city north of the Alps. The city was noted for its #Demographics, multicultural population during the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, with contemporary sources comparing it to Babylon. Before World War II and The Holocaust in Lithuania, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aukštaitija
Aukštaitija (; literally ''Highland'' or ''Upland'') is the name of one of five ethnographic regions of Lithuania. The name comes from the fact that the lands are in the upper basin of the Nemunas, as opposed to the Lowlands that begin from Šiauliai westward. Although Kaunas is surrounded by Aukštaitija, the city itself is not considered to be a part of any ethnographic region in most cases. Geography Aukštaitija is in the northeast part of Lithuania and also encompasses a small part of Latvia and Belarus. The largest city located entirely within this region, Panevėžys, is considered to be the capital, though not in a political sense. Sometimes Utena is regarded as a symbolical capital. The largest cities by population are: * Panevėžys – 84,587 * Jonava – 26,423 * Utena – 25,397 * Kėdainiai – 22,677 * Ukmergė – 20,154 * Visaginas – 18,024 * Radviliškis – 15,161 The region has many lakes, mainly on the eastern side. Subdivisions History Historic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Visuotinė Lietuvių Enciklopedija
The ''Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija'' or VLE () is a 25-volume universal Lithuanian-language encyclopedia published by the Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing Institute from 2001 to 2014. VLE is the first published universal encyclopedia in post-Soviet Lithuania (it replaces the former ''Lietuviškoji Tarybinė Enciklopedija'' which was published in thirteen volumes from 1976 to 1985). The last volume, XXV, was published in July 2014. An additional volume of updates, error corrections, and indexes was published in 2015. The encyclopedia's twenty-five volumes contain nearly 122,000 articles and about 25,000 illustrations. Since June 2017, VLE is published as an online encyclopedia being updated to present day. Description VLE is an encyclopedia published in Lithuanian; therefore, it focuses on Lithuania, Lithuanians and Lithuanian topics (Lithuanian personalities, organizations, language, culture, national activities). These articles make up about 20–25% of all articles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
