Miory

Miory lies in the lake country northeast of Braslaw, in the former lands of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. First mentioned in 1514, it was a privately held settlement and the centre of the Ryłło family's estate. In 1640 Sebastian Światopełk Mirski, a judge of Braslaw, acquired the property; the following year he built a wooden Catholic church. Miory belonged to Braslaw County in Vilnius Voivodeship until the Second Partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth brought it under Russian rule.