Ašmiany
Sign in to saveAshmyany or Oshmyany is a city in Grodno Region, Belarus. It is located from Vilnius in Lithuania, and serves as the administrative center of Ashmyany District. The river Ashmyanka passes through the city. As of 2025, it has a population of 16,804.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Ashmyany
- Settlement.other_name
- Oshmyany
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag of Ašmiany.svg
- Settlement.image_shield
- Coat of Arms of Ašmiany, Belarus.svg
- Settlement.flag_size
- 150
- Settlement.shield_size
- 75
- Settlement.mapsize
- 230px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Belarus#Europe
- Settlement.pushpin_relief
- 1
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Belarus
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Grodno Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Ashmyany District
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2025
- Settlement.population_total
- 16,804
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22 sectionsContents
- Name
- History
- Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Russian Partition
- November Uprising (1830-1831)
- Rebuilding
- World War I
- In interwar Poland
- World War II
- Recent history
- Climate
- Demographics
- Landmarks
- Gallery
- Miscellaneous
- Notable people
- Birth place
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Ashmyany or Oshmyany is a city in Grodno Region, Belarus. It is located from Vilnius in Lithuania, and serves as the administrative center of Ashmyany District. The river Ashmyanka passes through the city. As of 2025, it has a population of 16,804.
==Name== Since time immemorial, Ašmena and its surroundings were ethnic Lithuanian territory. However, many of the indigenous inhabitants died out during the wars, famine and plague in the late 17th and the early 18th centuries, and the Belarusian population replaced them. Lithuanians were slavicized along the Minsk-Ašmena-Vilnius axis, and by the mid-19th century, the numbers of Lithuanian-speakers had severely decreased.