Aseri

{{Short description|Borough in Estonia}}

{{About|the place in Estonia|the Italian educational institution|ASERI – Postgraduate School of Economics and International Relations}}

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Aseri

| settlement_type = Small borough

| image_skyline = Kesktänav, Aseri.jpg

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| image_caption = The main street in Aseri

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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Estonia

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| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{flag|Estonia}}

| subdivision_type1 = County

| subdivision_name1 = 24px Lääne-Viru County

| subdivision_type2 = Municipality

| subdivision_name2 = Viru-Nigula Parish

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| population_total = 1439

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Aseri ({{langx|de|Asserien}}) is a small borough ({{langx|et|alevik}}) in Viru-Nigula Parish, Lääne-Viru County, in northeastern Estonia. As of the 2011 census, the settlement's population was 1,439, of which the Estonians were 506 (35.2%).{{cite web|title=Number and share of Estonians by place of residence (settlement)|url=http://pub.stat.ee/px-web.2001/Dialog/varval.asp?ma=PC004&lang=1|publisher=Statistics Estonia|access-date=31 May 2013|date=31 December 2011}}

There is a building materials factory in Aseri.

A 3,200-year-old bronze ax has been found on the beach of Meriküla, only four Late Bronze Age axes have been found in Estonia so far.

Aseri is named after the Aseri manor, which was first mentioned in 1367 under the name Asserien, the manor belonged to the parish of Lüganuse, and in the 16th century these areas were merged with the parish of Viru-Nigula.

During the German occupation of Estonia (World War II), the occupiers operated a subcamp of the Vaivara concentration camp, in which Frenchmen, Spaniards, Dutchmen and Jews were subjected to forced labour.{{cite book|last=Megargee|first=Geoffrey P.|year=2009|title=The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume I|publisher=Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum|page=1496|isbn=978-0-253-35328-3}}