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Belastok Region, the Glossary

Belastok Region, also known as Belastok Voblasts or Belostok Oblast (Biełastockaja vobłasć; Белостокская область; Obwód białostocki) was a short-lived region (voblasts) of the Byelorussian SSR during World War II, lasting from September 1939 until Operation Barbarossa in 1941, and again for a short period in 1944.^[1]

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Białystok in World War II
Former administrative divisions of Poland
Former subdivisions of Belarus
Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland 1939–1941
States and territories established in 1939

Łomża

Łomża is a city in north-eastern Poland, approximately to the north-east of Warsaw and west of Białystok.

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Belarusian language

Belarusian (label) is an East Slavic language.

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Belarusian resistance during World War II

The Belarusian resistance during World War II opposed Nazi Germany from 1941 until 1944. Belarus was one of the Soviet republics occupied during Operation Barbarossa. The term Belarusian partisans may refer to Soviet-formed irregular military groups fighting Germany, but has also been used to refer to the disparate independent groups who also fought as guerrillas at the time, including Jewish groups (such as the Bielski partisans and Fareynikte Partizaner Organisatsye), Polish groups (such as the Home Army), and nationalist Belarusian forces opposed to Germany.

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Białystok

Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Voivodeship.

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Białystok Voivodeship (1944–1975)

Białystok Voivodeship (Województwo białostockie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from 1944 to 1975, when its purview was separated into eastern Suwałki Voivodeship, Łomża Voivodeship and Białystok Voivodeship (1975–1998).

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Bialystok District

Bialystok District (German: Bezirk Bialystok) was an administrative unit of Nazi Germany created during the World War II invasion of the Soviet Union. Belastok Region and Bialystok District are Białystok in World War II.

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Brańsk

Brańsk (Podlachian language: Бранськ, Branśk, Бранск, Branskas) is a town in eastern Poland.

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Brest Region

Brest Region, also known as Brest Oblast or Brest Voblasts (Bresckaja voblasć; Brestskaya oblast), is one of the six regions of Belarus. Belastok Region and Brest Region are states and territories established in 1939.

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The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR or Byelorussian SSR; Беларуская Савецкая Сацыялістычная Рэспубліка; Белорусская Советская Социалистическая Республика), also known as Byelorussia, was a republic of the Soviet Union (USSR).

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Communist Party of Byelorussia

The Communist Party of Byelorussia (CPB; translit; translit) was the ruling communist party of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, a constituent republic of the Soviet Union from 1922, that existed from 1917 to 1991.

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Curzon Line

The Curzon Line was a proposed demarcation line between the Second Polish Republic and the Soviet Union, two new states emerging after World War I. Based on a suggestion by Herbert James Paton, it was first proposed in 1919 by Lord Curzon, the British Foreign Secretary, to the Supreme War Council as a diplomatic basis for a future border agreement.

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Czarna Hańcza

The Czarna Hańcza, Chornaya Hancha is the largest river of the Suwałki Region of north-eastern Poland and the Sapockin region of north-western Belarus.

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German Reich

German Reich (lit. German Realm, German Empire, from Deutsches Reich) was the constitutional name for the German nation state that existed from 18 January 1871 to 5 June 1945.

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Grodno Region

Grodno Region or Hrodna Region, also known as Grodno Oblast or Hrodna Voblasts (Hrodzienskaja voblasć; Grodnenskaya oblast; Obwód Grodzieński), is one of the regions of Belarus.

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Kolkhoz

A kolkhoz (p) was a form of collective farm in the Soviet Union.

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Oblast

An oblast (plural oblasts, oblasti, or rarely oblasty; Russian and oblast'; voblasc'; oblast; oblys; oblus) is a type of administrative division in Bulgaria and several post-Soviet states, including Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.

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Operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa (Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.

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Panteleimon Ponomarenko

Panteleimon Kondratyevich Ponomarenko (Пантелеймо́н Кондра́тьевич Пономаре́нко,;; 18 January 1984) was a Soviet statesman and politician and one of the leaders of Soviet partisan resistance in Belarus.

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Polish Academy of Sciences

The Polish Academy of Sciences (Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning.

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Polish language

Polish (język polski,, polszczyzna or simply polski) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group within the Indo-European language family written in the Latin script.

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Polish population transfers (1944–1946)

The Polish population transfers in 1944–1946 from the eastern half of prewar Poland (also known as the expulsions of Poles from the Kresy macroregion), were the forced migrations of Poles toward the end and in the aftermath of World War II.

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Polish–Soviet border agreement of August 1945

The Border Agreement between Poland and the USSR of 16 August 1945 established the borders between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Republic of Poland.

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Raion

A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states.

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Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.

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Regions of Belarus

At the top level of administration, Belarus is divided into six regions and one capital city.

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Russian language

Russian is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Russia.

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Second Polish Republic

The Second Polish Republic, at the time officially known as the Republic of Poland, was a country in Central and Eastern Europe that existed between 7 October 1918 and 6 October 1939.

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Soviet invasion of Poland

The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military conflict by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war.

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Sovkhoz

A sovkhoz (a, abbreviated from советское хозяйство, "sovetskoye khozyaystvo (sovkhoz)") was a form of state-owned farm in the Soviet Union.

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Territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union

Seventeen days after the German invasion of Poland in 1939, which marked the beginning of the Second World War, the Soviet Union entered the eastern regions of Poland (known as the Kresy) and annexed territories totalling with a population of 13,299,000. Belastok Region and territories of Poland annexed by the Soviet Union are Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland 1939–1941.

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Tutejszy

Tutejszy (Polish: tutejszy,; translit; translit; tuteišiai; tuteiši; translit) was a self-identification of Eastern European rural populations, who did not have a clear national identity.

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Western Belorussia

Western Belorussia or Western Belarus (translit; Zachodnia Białoruś; translit) is a historical region of modern-day Belarus which belonged to the Second Polish Republic during the interwar period.

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1st Belorussian Front

The 1st Belorussian Front (Пéрвый Белорусский фронт, Pervyy Belorusskiy front, also romanized "Byelorussian"), known without a numeral as the Belorussian Front between October 1943 and February 1944, was a major formation of the Red Army during World War II, being equivalent to a Western army group.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belastok_Region

Also known as Belastok Oblast, Belastok Voblast, Belastok Voblasts, Bielastok voblasc, Biełastok vobłasć.

Belastok Region, the Glossary

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See also

Białystok in World War II

Former administrative divisions of Poland

Former subdivisions of Belarus

Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland 1939–1941

States and territories established in 1939

References