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	History of Belarus (Great Litva)
		History of Belarus - excerpts from the book "Belarus - a new country in Eastern Europe", written in 1994 by Uladzimir Novik, a member of the Belarusian Parliament.
		On the 19 August, 1991 the BSSR was renamed to the Republic of Belarus.
		Belarus in the middle of the XVIII c.
	www.belarusguide.com /as/history/history.html (2810 words)

	Belarus Summer and Winter Holidays
		Travel Information and Best Sites Where To Go Roads of Europe and Satellite Images It is divided into three sections and Tourist Guides Road s World Map and Satellite Images Geography and History - Belarus European Commission.
		This site is offered to give a first information about the Internet Guide EU Eco-label for Maps and Guides tourist accommodation service.
		Resource guide, flag for the country, travel information about things to do in the capital city, hoq eirope vusa geography, flg history sites, touris m vosa best places to go, googl e hoe
	summer.guia-portugal.com /belarus.htm (1856 words)

	History of Belarus
		While archeological evidence points to settlement in today's Belarus at least 10,000 years ago, recorded history begins with settlement by Baltic and Slavic tribes in the early centuries A.D. With distinctive features by the ninth century, the emerging Belarusian state was then absorbed by Kievan Rus' in the 9th century.
		Belarus was the birthplace of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Belarusian was the state language of the Grand Duchy until 1697, in part owing to the strong flowering of Belarusian culture during the Renaissance through the works of leading Belarusian humanists such as Frantzisk Skaryna).
		Belarus was the site of the Union of Brest in 1597, which created the Greek Catholic Church, for long the majority church in Belarus until suppressed by the Russian empire, and the birthplace of Thaddeus Kosciuszko, who played a key role in the American Revolution.
	www.historyofnations.net /europe/belarus.html (714 words)

	A short history of Belarus
		Present-day Belarus is populated by Baltic and Slavonic tribes since the first century.
		Poland and Russia fight a war in Belarus, in which in 1920 the Lithuanian-Belorussian SSR collapses.
		In 1991 the Republic of Belarus secedes under the presidency of the communist reformer Stanislau Shuškevič from the USSR and becomes independent.
	www.electionworld.org /history/belarus.htm (363 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > History of Belarus (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The history of Belarus begins with the migration and expansion of the Slavs throughout Eastern Europe between the 6th and 8th centuries of the Common Era.
		East Slavs settled on the territory within present-day Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, assimilating local Baltic (Belarus), Ugro-Finnic (Russia) and steppe nomads (Ukraine) already living there, early ethnic integrations that contributed to the gradual differentation of the three East Slavic nations.
		Between the 9th and 12th centuries, the principality of Polatsk (northern Belarus) emerged as the dominant center of power on Belarusian territory, with a lesser role played by the principality of Turaw in the south.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/hi/History_of_Belarus (518 words)

	Belarus
		The Dnieper (known as the Dnyapro in Belarus) is the largest river in Belarus; it flows southward, almost the entire length of the country in the east, passing through the city of Mahilyow.
		At one time, Belarus comprised one part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, along with Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Ukraine, and at another, it was incorporated into the USSR before its dissolution.
		Belarus ranked sixteenth for mothers' quality of life, fourteenth for a womans' quality of life and twentieth for the quality of life for children.
	lycos.cs.cmu.edu /info/belarus--history.html (707 words)

	REPUBLIC OF BELARUS
		In so doing, he has pushed the teaching of Belarusian history in high schools and universities to the forefront of an increasingly sharp battle for the presentation of the "true" history of Belarus.
		Historians who have researched Belarus' national past or Stalinist atrocities are viewed as having directly challenged the government's policy of integration and now face restrictions in their work.
		For the private universities, in the present politically charged atmosphere in Belarus, the standard process of periodic licence renewal by the Ministry of Education becomes a moment of apprehension as these universities' record of political activity on campus comes under scrutiny.
	www.hrw.org /reports/1999/belarus/Belrus99-02.htm (1187 words)

	History of Belarus - Definition, explanation
		The history of Belarus, or, more correctly of the Belarusian ethnicity, begins with the migration and expansion of the Slavic peoples throughout Eastern Europe between the 6th and 8th centuries Anno Domini.
		Between the 9th and 12th century, the principality of Polatsk (northern Belarus) emerged as the dominant center of power on Belarusian territory, with a lesser role played by the principality of Turau in the south.
		Belarus suffered particularly heavily during the fighting and the German occupation, as well as from the results of a slash-and-burn policy pursued by retreating Soviet troops.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/h/hi/history_of_belarus.php (2107 words)

	Travel - Virgin.net (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Belarus was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania during the 13th and 14th centuries.
		Between 1941 and 1944 Belarus was occupied by German forces invading Russia; the region bore much of the brunt of the German occupation: an estimated two million people – including virtually the whole Jewish population – were murdered during this period.
		With the post-war settlement, Belarus returned to its former status as a Soviet republic, but (uniquely among Soviet republics) was granted membership of the United Nations in its own right as a concession to Soviet requests for greater voting power at the assembly.
	content1.virgin.net /_1_4JK7TJT03KCFCNT__uk.vnetuk/travel/guides.htm&location=Belarus&page=HistoryGovernment (549 words)

	Belarus (01/07)
		The Council of the Republic is the house of territorial representation.
		Belarus continues to be heavily dependent on Russia, with the potential for greater economic dependency looming in the long-proposed European Union (EU)-style union between the two states.
		Belarus was previously a recipient of assistance under the U.S. Defense Department's Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program, whose objective is to reduce the threat posed to the United States by weapons of mass destruction remaining on the territory of the former Soviet Union, by promoting denuclearization and demilitarization, and preventing weapons proliferation.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/5371.htm (6046 words)

	Belarus History \| iExplore.com
		Belarus was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania during the 13th and 14th centuries.
		With the post-war settlement, Belarus returned to its former status as a Soviet republic but (uniquely among Soviet republics) was granted membership of the United Nations in its own right as a concession to Soviet requests for greater voting power at the assembly.
		Like other Soviet republics, Belarus suffered a sharp decline in output and a variety of other problems following the dissolution of the Soviet Union; this was then followed by a period of stabilization, which took hold during the mid-1990s as the Government and people adjusted to new economic circumstances.
	www.iexplore.com /dmap/Belarus/History (1172 words)

	Belarus Magazine
		Belarus is going to carry on bilateral negotiations on entering the World Trade Organization not at all costs but on the basis of interests
		Belarus hopes to preserve its quotes on textile exports in EU countries
		Belarus and Germany are connected with old business contacts, cooperation in trade and investment spheres
	belarus-magazine.by /en.php (149 words)

	History of Belarus - Permanent Mission of the Republic of Belarus to the United Nations
		History of Belarus - Permanent Mission of the Republic of Belarus to the United Nations
		The territory of Belarus started to be populated from the middle of the Old Stone Age (100-40 thousand B.C.), the first settlements appeared 27-24 thousand years ago.
		The implementation of the Church Unia faced resistance in the Orthodox environment, which, together with a hard economic state of peasantry and town grass-roots resulted in an anti-feudal war.
	www.un.int /belarus/about/history.htm (1172 words)

	Belarus - History
		The present Slavic population of Belarus settled there between the 6th and the 8th century.
		Another notable harsh period in Belarusian history was the Chernobyl accident of 1986.
		On December 8, 1991, the leaders of Russia (Boris Yeltsin), Ukraine (Leonid Kravchuk), and Belarus (Stanislav Shushkevich) republics met in Belarus, in Belavezhskaya Pushcha, to issue a declaration that the Soviet Union was dissolved and replaced by the Commonwealth of Independent States.
	www.encounter-belarus.com /History-3.html (421 words)

	History of Belarus Short Overvie
		In reply to this Russia, on the formal invitation of the conservative representatives of shljahta, deployed troops on the territory of the Rzeczpospolita and conducted the second partition of the state, as a result of which the central part of Belarus was also annexed by Russia.
		On 2 April 1996 in Moscow, the President of Belarus A.G.Lukashenko and the President of the Russian federation B. Yeltsin signed the treaty on the creation of the Commonwealth of Belarus and Russia.
		On 2 April 1997 in Moscow, the Treaty on the Creation of the Union Between Belarus and Russia was signed and on 23 May 1997 the Union Statute was adopted.
	www.belarusembassy.org /belarus/short_overview.htm (3499 words)

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		Belarus [formerly Belorussia or White Russia] is part of a region that is wedged between the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, and like its neighbors, present-day Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Poland, and the Ukraine, can look back on a turbulent past.
		For centuries, the borders of Belarus kept shifting; Minsk, its capital, about 260 km [160 miles] from the Polish border, was founded in 1067 as Menesk, became part of Lithuania in 1326, was later ceded to Poland, then to Russia in 1793.
		In November 12th 1997, Police in Belarus have detained the country's agriculture minister, Vasily Leonov, and the head of its main farming enterprise Vasily Starovoitov on suspicion of embezzlement and corruption.
	www.greatestcities.com /users/cbray5003/605883.html (5382 words)

	History of Belarus
		In both Belarus and Moldova, there are many who wish to return to the days of the Soviet Union for a variety of reasons, some economic, some nostalgic, and some fearful.
		In Belarus these conservatives (ethnic Belarusians as well as ethnic Russians) are in the majority and are to be found throughout the population and the government.
		Belarus chose the former path, which coincided with the fact that it was selling fewer of its goods because of price and quality considerations, while Moldova tried, sometimes unsuccessfully, to take steps toward improved efficiency.
	www.motherearthtravel.com /belarus/history.htm (1467 words)

	REPUBLIC OF BELARUS
		We first had the opportunity to research the real history of our native country when, during the perestroika and post-perestroika periods, we were able to gain access to the archives.
		Stuzhinskaya is currently writing her thesis, entitled, "The Anti-Soviet Movement in Belarus, 1917-1929," a subject that senior members of the institute were reluctant to approve.
		While opposed to the return to Soviet-era texts, she acknowledges that the new history textbooks had been developed hastily and were in need of further revision.
	www.hrw.org /reports/1999/belarus/Belrus99-05.htm (3682 words)

	The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus
		The role of Belarus in the fight against invaders and sacrifices it made for liberation of the world from fascism allowed it to be among the first states which founded the United Nations Organisation.
		In conformity with the Constitution, the Republic of Belarus is a presidential republic.
		The Republic of Belarus is a member of UN and its different specialised agencies, Organisation on Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Central European Initiative and the Nonalignment Movement.
	www.mfa.gov.by /eng/index.php?d=belarus&id=10 (633 words)

	REPUBLIC OF BELARUS
		In so doing, he has pushed the teaching of Belarusian history in high schools and universities to the forefront of an increasingly sharp battle for the presentation of the "true" history of Belarus.
		Historians who have researched Belarus' national past or Stalinist atrocities are viewed as having directly challenged the government's policy of integration and now face restrictions in their work.
		For the private universities, in the present politically charged atmosphere in Belarus, the standard process of periodic licence renewal by the Ministry of Education becomes a moment of apprehension as these universities' record of political activity on campus comes under scrutiny.
	hrw.org /reports/1999/belarus/Belrus99-02.htm (1187 words)

	The History of Belarus Belarusian History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Belarus is a country that located in the geographical center of Europe.
		The history of Belarus begins about 100 - 40 thousand years ago when ancient people, overcoming severe climate of the Glacial Age, have lodged on the southern territories of Belarus.
		During the epoch of the High Middle Ages the territory of Belarus was a part of Ruthenia.
	albaruthenia.by.ru /belhist/main.htm (503 words)

	Economic History and Economy of Belarus
		Belarus (Byelorussia, White Russia) is the smallest of the three Slavic States of the former Soviet Union with a population of about ten million people.
		In 1994 Alexander Lukashenko was elected President of Belarus, with particular support from the pensioners, government employees and collective farmers who feared the financial chaos of the post-Soviet period.
		Lukashenko had the Belarus state take over the private banks that had been created after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
	www.sjsu.edu /faculty/watkins/belarus.htm (504 words)

	The EU's relations with Belarus - Overview
		In that context, the European Union welcomes the emergence in Belarus of a degree of pluralism and of a civil society which is aware of the challenges of democracy….
		Under the programme endorsed by Belarus in 1999, there was a further €5 million allocation in 2003 targeting civil society and activities related to the effects of Chernobyl.
		Belarus is eligible under the Decentralised Cooperation budget line (in total in 2005 € 1.7 million and €1.5 million in 2006 was made available through several calls for proposals).
	europa.eu.int /comm/external_relations/belarus/intro/index.htm (4692 words)

	Urban Dictionary: belarusian
		Belarus was never occupied by Grand Duchy of Lithuania.And Grand Duchy of Lithuania wasn't Lithuania at all.
		In history books Russians wrote that Belarus was always occupied by someone like Lithuania(who spoke Belarussian) and Poland(where the most important meetings were in Hrodna).Language was banned.Belarus first declared independence on 25 March 1918, forming the Belarusian People's Republic.
		Belarus fought brave Nazis and had big partisans movement.After the war Belarus was a major center of manufacturing in the western region of the Soviet Union.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=belarusian (635 words)

	Belarus maps from Omnimap.com, world leader in map supply.
		It is a complex, reference and scientific, geographical and cartographic atlas, which presents the comprehensive contemporary knowledge on the territory, nature, ecology, economy, population, culture, external links and the history of Belarus.
		The book consists of 19 sections, 11 of which are related to the natural valuable sites in Belarus, 7 - on the social and economic life, 1 - on the history of Belarus.
		The National Atlas of Belarus is intended for use in the central governing bodies when developing the social and economic programs; for the design and research institutions and the general public as well.
	www.omnimap.com /catalog/int/belarus.htm (472 words)

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