Hyeranyony (; ; ) is an agrotown in Iwye District, Grodno Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Hyeranyony selsoviet. It is located near the border with Lithuania and is known for the 16th-century Hieraniony Castle built by Albertas Goštautas. The village had a population of 1,278 in 2010.
Hyeranyony (; ; ) is an agrotown in Iwye District, Grodno Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Hyeranyony selsoviet. It is located near the border with Lithuania and is known for the 16th-century Hieraniony Castle built by Albertas Goštautas. The village had a population of 1,278 in 2010.
==History== thumb|left|Church of St. Nicholas and ruins of Hieraniony Castle, painting by [[Kanuty Rusiecki (1846)]] In 1433, the settlement was granted by Lithuanian Duke Sigismund Kęstutaitis to Jonas Goštautas. In 1519, Albertas Goštautas built a new church. From 1538 to 1542, future Queen consort of Poland and Grand Duchess consort of Lithuania Barbara Radziwiłł lived in the town. In 1542, it passed to King Sigismund I the Old. Afterwards it was a royal town, administratively located in the Oszmiana County in the Vilnius Voivodeship of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Several assemblies of Lithuanian nobility were held in the town during the 1575 interregnum. In 1708, King Stanisław Leszczyński stayed in the town for several days.
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