Muravanaya Ashmyanka
The village is the administrative center of the local rural council and collective farm, has a hospital and a high school. There still remains the ruined printing house, which was owned in beginning of the 17th century by Krzysztof Mikołaj Dorohostajski , and where Woiciech Salinarius's Censura was printed in 1615 (the brick building completed possibly in 1590, converted to the palace residence in the 19th century). There is also a Catholic church of Virgin Mary (wooden structure with a belltower, example of Baroque and Classicism and of folk wooden architecture; built in the end of the 18th — beginning of the 19th century, renewed in 1841 and 1874). During World War II (around May 1944) the village was the site of a battle between Polish resistance and Lithuanian auxiliary Local Lithuanian Detachment.
References
- ^ Gaponenko, Irina Olegovna (2004). Назвы населеных пунктаў Рэспублікі Беларусь: Гродзенская вобласць. Minsk: Тэхналогія. p. 105. ISBN 985-458-098-9.
- ^ "Решение № 100 (Решение Ошмянского районного Совета депутатов от 27 января 2009 г. №100 «О преобразовании некоторых населенных пунктов Ошмянского района в агрогородки.»)". etalonline.by. 27 January 2009. Retrieved 13 September 2024.
- ^ Andryyevich 2015.
- ^ Czesław Jankowski, POWIAT OSZMIAŃSKI. Materiały do dziejów ziemi i ludzi, St. Petersburg, Księgarnia Polska of Kazimierz Grendyszyński (and other prints), 1896
Sources
- Belarusian Encyclopedia, Vol.11, 2000; Collection of Historical and Cultural Artifacts of Belarus, Hrodna Voblast volume, 1986.
- Andryyevich, U. U. (2015). Гарады і вёскі Беларусі Т. 9 кн. 1. Minsk: Беларуская Энцыклапедыя імя Петруся Броўкі. ISBN 978-985-11-0839-4.