Smarhon district

{{Short description|District of Grodno region, Belarus}} {{Infobox settlement |name = Smarhon district |other_name = |native_name = {{native name|be|Смаргонскі раён|italics=off}}<br />{{native name|ru|Сморгонский район|italics=off}} |native_name_lang = |image_flag = Flag of Smarhoń, Belarus.svg |flag_link = |image_shield = Coat of Arms of Smarhoń, Belarus.svg |shield_size = 75 |shield_link = |flag_size = 150 |image_skyline = |imagesize = |image_caption = |coordinates = {{Coord|54|29|01|N|26|24|00|E|region:BY_type:adm2nd_source:kolossus-itwiki|display=title, inline}} |settlement_type = [[Districts of Belarus|District]] |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = [[Belarus]] |subdivision_type1 = [[Regions of Belarus|Region]] |subdivision_name1 = [[Grodno region]] |subdivision_type2 = |subdivision_name2 = |subdivision_type3 = |subdivision_name3 = |subdivision_type4 = |subdivision_name4 = |subdivision_type5 = |subdivision_name5 = |seat_type = Administrative center |seat = [[Smarhon]] |latd= |latm= |lats= |latNS= |longd= |longm= |longs= |longEW= |area_total_km2 = 1490.01 |population_total = 48,464 |population_urban = 35,422 |population_rural = 13,042 |population_as_of = 2024 |population_footnotes = <ref name="pop">{{cite web|url=https://www.belstat.gov.by/ofitsialnaya-statistika/solialnaya-sfera/naselenie-i-migratsiya/naselenie/statisticheskie-izdaniya/index_89355/|title=Численность населения на 1 января 2024 г. и среднегодовая численность населения за 2023 год по Республике Беларусь в разрезе областей, районов, городов, поселков городского типа|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240402055418/https://www.belstat.gov.by/ofitsialnaya-statistika/solialnaya-sfera/naselenie-i-migratsiya/naselenie/statisticheskie-izdaniya/index_89355/|archive-date=2 April 2024|website=belsat.gov.by|access-date=13 May 2024}}</ref> |population_density_km2 = auto |elevation_max_m = 320 |elevation_min_m = 121 |elevation_max_footnotes = {{efn|Highest point: Milidauskaya Mountain}} |elevation_min_footnotes = {{efn|Lowest point: Lowest spot on the [[Neris|Viliya]]'s bank}} |image_map = Belarus, Hrodzienskaja voblasć, Smarhonski rajon.png |image_dot_map = |dot_x = |dot_y = |mapsize = |postal_code_type = |postal_code = |area_code = |leader_title = Chairman |leader_name = Henadzi Kharuzhyk |website = {{URL|http://smorgon.grodno-region.by}} }} [[File:«Большой камень» кревский.jpg|thumb|Kreŭski boulder in Smarhon district - a natural monument]] '''Smarhon district''' or '''Smarhoń district'''<ref>Official transliteration from Belarusian language (2007)</ref> ({{langx|be|Смаргонскі раён}}; {{langx|ru|Сморгонский район}}) is a [[districts of Belarus|district]] ([[raion]]) of [[Grodno region]] in [[Belarus]]. The administrative center is [[Smarhon]].<ref name="pop"/> As of 2024, it has a population of 48,464.<ref name="pop"/>

Historically the district's center [[Smarhon]] was part of the [[Vilnius Voivodeship]] within the [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania]] until 1795.<ref name="SmurgainysVle">{{cite web |last1=Garšva |first1=Kazimieras |title=Smurgainys |url=https://www.vle.lt/straipsnis/smurgainys/ |website=[[Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija]] |access-date=25 November 2024 |language=lt}}</ref> Forty percent of the names of Smarhon district's settlements have remained of the [[Lithuania]]n origin, while residents of Smarhon once spoke in the Eastern [[Aukštaitija|Aukštaitian]]-[[Vilnius|Vilnian]] dialect of [[Lithuanian language]].<ref name="SmurgainysVle"/>

== Main sights ==

* [[Ahinski Manor in Zaliessie]]

== Notable residents ==

* [[Adam Stankievič]] (1882, Arlianiaty village – 1949), Belarusian Roman Catholic priest, politician and writer, a [[Gulag]] prisoner<ref> [https://biographies.library.nd.edu/catalog/biography-1431 Biography of Father Adam Stankiewicz] </ref> * [[Jan Stankievič]] (1891, Arlianiaty village – 1976), Belarusian politician, linguist, historian and philosopher<ref> [http://www.slounik.org/149461.html Stankievič Jan] </ref> * [[Antoni Leszczewicz]] (1890, Abramaǔščyna – 1943), beautified Marian Father and Roman Catholic priest, victim of the Nazis<ref> [https://www.svaboda.org/a/774421.html Антоні Ляшчэвіч (Antoni Leszczewicz)] (in Belarusian)</ref> * [[Andrei Tsikota]] (1891–1952), Belarusian priest, member of the [[Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic]] and a victim of the [[Gulag]]<ref>[https://biographies.library.nd.edu/catalog/biography-1401 Biography of Servant of God Archimandrite Andrzej Cikoto, MIC]</ref><ref>[https://krynica.info/be/2017/02/13/andrehjj-cikota-svyatar-yaki-lamau-stehrehatypy/ Андрэй Цікота: святар, які ламаў стэрэатыпы [Andrei Tsikota: a priest who broke stereotypes<nowiki>]</nowiki>] - Krynica.info</ref>

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