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Ašmiany

Ašmiany District, Horadnia Region

Names

Belarusian
Ашмяны
Belarusian (Taraškievica)
Ашмяны; Ašmiany; Ашмена; Ашмяна
Russian
Ошмяны
Polish
Oszmiana; Oszmiany
Lithuanian
Ašmena; Ašmiany; Ošmiany
Ukrainian
Ошмяни
Yiddish
אָשמענע/Oshmene
English
Ašmiany; Ashmiany; Ashmyany; Oshmiany; Oshmyany
German
Aschmjany; Ašmiany
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Old maps of this place — Russian 3-verst map, WIG 1:100,000 (1924–1939), German maps of 1914–1918 (Mapster)

Now: Ašmiany District, Horadnia Region

Affiliation by years

Parish, volost, district and estate as different sources give them, one source a row. Each source speaks of its own year and they may disagree.

YearsParishVolost; districtEstateSource
1566–1795Oshmyansky povet, Vilnius VoivodeshipWikidata
1795–1920Oshmyany County, Vilna GovernorateWikidata
1920–1939Oshmiana district, Wilno VoivodeshipWikidata

Indexes of metric books

Baptisms, marriages and deaths transcribed by volunteers (Geneteka of the Polish Genealogical Society), with the years transcribed. Search by surname on their site.

Estates

Estates whose files name this place:

Extraordinary State Commission files, 1944–1945

Files of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission on the occupiers' crimes: witness interviews, lists of the killed and of those deported to Germany (NARB fond 1569, digital copies from GARF, scans online). The 1944 district is the one with the nearest district seat, so near a district border look at the neighbouring one too.

Ошмянский район (1944)

Files on the whole region — Молодечненская область (2)

Places of the parish (5)

Places the sources assign to the parish seated here.

Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego

Polish geographical dictionary of 1880–1902: gmina, parish, number of households, owners. The link opens the page scan.

Where it is mentioned

Fonds, inventories and files whose titles contain the place name. Several places may share a name — check the uezd and volost.

All records mentioning it: 518in the search, with filters by archive, kind of document and years

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Links

Place data from Wikidata (CC0 licence), where it can also be corrected.