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  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Belarus
Belarus (Belarusian: Белару́сь, Biełaruś, Russian: Белару́сь (formerly: Белору́ссия), Polish: Białoruś) is a landlocked nation of Eastern Europe with the capital Minsk.
Belarusian territories were the core of newly created Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Another notable harsh period in Belarusian history was the Chernobyl accident of 1986.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Belarus   (1241 words)

  
 Slavic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages), a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia.
Despite their frequent lack of political power, speakers of Slavic languages demonstrated resilience, sometimes culturally taking over foreign political rulers, as in Bulgaria, where Bulgar overlords became Slavicized.
Similarly, in the Republic of Dubrovnik Croatian became an official language in parallel to Ragusan Dalmatian and Latin.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slavic_languages   (1559 words)

  
 History of Belarus (Great Litva)
Old Belarusian was still an official language of courts proceedings in the former lands of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania until mid XVIII century, when it was replaced by Polish and Russian.
Belarusian Nazi during the World War II and their work for the Cold War based on "Belarus Secret" by John Loftus.
Belarusian Heraldry - an overview of the historical tradition of Belarusian Heraldry, including a large collection of the coats of arms of Belarusian towns and cities.
www.belarusguide.com /as/history/history.html   (2527 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Belarus Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In English, Belarus and Belarusian are the common terms: they refer to the historical connection with the people known as Rus' that predated Russians, Ukrainians or Belarusians.
The explanation may be found in Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii by Sigismund von Herberstein First Muscovian tsars wore white robes -- to distinguish themselves from Byzantine emperors that wore purple and Persian rulers that wore red -- in accordance with the Third Rome doctrine of Russian tsars.
One such theory is based upon the accepted fact that the Belarusian ethnos is formed primarily by the historical interactions amongst Slavic and Baltic ethnicities.
www.ipedia.com /belarus.html   (727 words)

  
 Cyndi's List - Royalty & Nobility
The study of of king lists, sequences of governance in the history of a state, and the organizing of such data.
Lists of officials who served in the departments of central government since the Restoration.
Listing of noble and aristocratic families in and from the Kingdom of Sweden.
www.cyndislist.com /royalty.htm   (2445 words)

  
 Kesher Talk: 03/17/2002 - 03/23/2002
Now, Andrew Wallenstein fears that, in the wake of Schindler's List, Hollywood has joined in the popularization of the Holocaust - and it may not be a good thing.
The AP reports that, "A Belarusian Jewish group is urging the US Congress to maintain Cold War-era trade sanctions against Belarus over the demolition of a century-old Minsk synagogue and other anti-Semitic acts.
It is one of the most important identity issues in Arab politics, which is why competing social forces in Egypt or Saudi Arabia, for example, often distinguish themselves from each other by how they talk about Israel.
www.hfienberg.com /kesher/2002_03_17_kesher_archive.html   (11205 words)

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