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 | | The Pahonia (or Pahonya or Pagonia), translated as "pursuit" or "the chase", depicts a knight on horseback and is the traditional symbol, and coat of arms, of the independent Belarus. |
 | | In 1918, the Belarusian Democratic Republic adopted as its coat of arms the Pahonia as an emblem that originated in ancient Navahradak (also Navahrudak, Novogrudok, Novogorodok), the first capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Rus', and Samogitia. |
 | | The Pahonia represents a knight on horseback, both white, on a red background, the knight having his sword drawn, symbolizing pursuit of an enemy in defense of the homeland. |
| www.belarus-misc.org /pahonia.htm (906 words) |
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