Smarhon district or SmarhoÃ
 district (; ) is a district (raion) of Grodno region in Belarus. The administrative center is Smarhon. As of 2024, it has a population of 48,464.
Historically the district's center Smarhon was part of the Vilnius Voivodeship within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania until 1795. Forty percent of the names of Smarhon district's settlements have remained of the Lithuanian origin, while residents of Smarhon once spoke in the Eastern AukÃ
¡taitian-Vilnian dialect of Lithuanian language.
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Notable residents
- Adam Stankievià(1882, Arlianiaty village â 1949), Belarusian Roman Catholic priest, politician and writer, a Gulag prisoner
- Jan Stankievià(1891, Arlianiaty village â 1976), Belarusian politician, linguist, historian and philosopher
- Antoni Leszczewicz (1890, AbramaÃÂÃ
¡ÃÂyna â 1943), beautified Marian Father and Roman Catholic priest, victim of the Nazis
- Andrei Tsikota (1891âÂÂ1952), Belarusian priest, member of the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic and a victim of the Gulag
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