Rokiškis

Rokiškis grew around a manor in northeastern Lithuania, amid the lands of the Grand Duchy. The estate is first recorded in 1499, when it was held by the noble Grigalius Astikas. It later belonged to the Kroszyński and Tyzenhaus families. Under the latter, the town centre took shape in the late eighteenth century with a planned square and streets linking the manor to the settlement. Rokiškis passed to the Russian Empire when the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was partitioned in 1795.