Grodno Region, the Glossary

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1. 147 relations: Adam Mickiewicz, Administrative centre, Alexander Jagiellon, Alytus County, Antoni Tyzenhauz, Ashmyany, Ashmyany District, Astravyets, Astravyets District, Auschwitz concentration camp, Balts, Belarus, Belarusian Democratic Republic, Belarusians, Belastok Region, Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park, Białowieża Forest, Białystok Ghetto, Białystok Voivodeship (1919–1939), Black Ruthenia, Bona Sforza, Brest Region, Byarozawka, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byerastavitsa District, Catholic Church, Church of Saint Anthony of Padua, Kamyenka, Church of the Holy Trinity, Hyervyaty, Chuvash people, Curzon Line, District, Districts of Belarus, Dregoviches, Dzyarechyn, Dzyatlava, Dzyatlava District, Early Slavs, Eastern Orthodox Church, Eparchy, Ethnographic Lithuania, Georgians, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Grodno, Grodno Azot, Grodno County, Grodno District, Grodno Ghetto, Grodno Governorate, Grodno tobacco factory, Human Development Index, ... Expand index (97 more) »

Adam Mickiewicz

Adam Bernard Mickiewicz (24 December 179826 November 1855) was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator and political activist.

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Administrative centre

An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune, is located.

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Alexander Jagiellon

Alexander Jagiellon (Aleksander Jagiellończyk; Aleksandras Jogailaitis; 5 August 1461 – 19 August 1506) of the House of Jagiellon was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1492 and King of Poland from 1501 until his death in 1506.

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Alytus County

Alytus County (Alytaus apskritis) is one of ten counties in Lithuania.

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Antoni Tyzenhauz

Antoni Tyzenhauz (1733 – 31 March 1785) was a noble from the Tyzenhaus family, son of Benedykt Tyzenhauz.

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Ashmyany

Ashmyany or Oshmyany (Ašmiany; Ошмяны; Ašmena; Oszmiana; Oshmene) is a city in Grodno Region, Belarus.

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Ashmyany District

Ashmyany District or Ašmiany District (Ashmyanski rajon; Oshmyansky rayon) is a district (raion) of Grodno Region in Belarus.

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Astravyets

Astravyets (Astraviec,; Ostrovets,; Ostrowiec; Astravas) is a town in Grodno Region, Belarus.

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Astravyets District

Astravyets District or Astraviec District (Астравецкі раён; Островецкий район) is a district (raion) of Grodno Region in Belarus.

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Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz concentration camp (also KL Auschwitz or KZ Auschwitz) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust.

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Balts

The Balts or Baltic peoples (baltai, balti) are a group of peoples inhabiting the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea who speak Baltic languages.

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Belarus

Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe.

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Belarusian Democratic Republic

The Belarusian People's Republic (BNR; Biełaruskaja Narodnaja Respublika, БНР), also known as the Belarusian Democratic Republic, was a state proclaimed by the Council of the Belarusian Democratic Republic in its Second Constituent Charter on 9 March 1918 during World War I. The Council proclaimed the Belarusian Democratic Republic independent in its Third Constituent Charter on 25 March 1918 during the occupation of contemporary Belarus by the Imperial German Army.

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Belarusians

Belarusians (biełarusy) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Belarus.

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Belastok Region

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.

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Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park

Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park (Russian: Retrieved May 27, 2015. Национальный парк «Беловежская пуща», Нацыянальны парк Белавежская пушча) is a national park within parts of the Brest Region (Kamyanyets District and Pruzhany District) and Grodno Region (Svislach District) in Belarus adjacent to the Polish border.

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Białowieża Forest

Białowieża Forest is a large forest complex on the border between Poland and Belarus.

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Białystok Ghetto

The Białystok Ghetto (getto w Białymstoku) was a Nazi ghetto set up by the German SS between July 26 and early August 1941 in the newly formed District of Bialystok within occupied Poland.

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Białystok Voivodeship (1919–1939)

Białystok Voivodeship (Województwo białostockie) was an administrative unit of interwar Poland (1918–1939).

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Black Ruthenia

Black Ruthenia (Ruthenia Nigra), or Black Rus' (translit; Juodoji Rusia; Ruś Czarna), is a historical region on the Upper Neman, including Novogrudok, Grodno and Slonim.

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Bona Sforza

Bona Sforza (2 February 1494 – 19 November 1557) was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania as the second wife of Sigismund the Old, and Duchess of Bari and Rossano by her own right.

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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.

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Byarozawka

Byarozawka or Beryozovka (Biarozaŭka; Берёзовка; Brzozówka; Biarozauka) is a town in Lida District, Grodno Region, Belarus.

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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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Byerastavitsa District

Byerastavitsa District or Bierastavica District (Бераставіцкі раён; Берестовицкий район) is a district (raion) of Grodno Region in Belarus.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Church of Saint Anthony of Padua, Kamyenka

Church of Saint Anthony of Padua is a Catholic church in, Belarus, built in 1908.

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Church of the Holy Trinity, Hyervyaty

The Church of the Holy Trinity (Касцёл Святой Тройцы; Kościół Trójcy Przenajświetszej, Gervėčių Švenčiausiosios Trejybės bažnyčia) is a Roman Catholic church in Hyervyaty, Grodno Region, Belarus.

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Chuvash people

The Chuvash people (чӑваш; çăvaş), plural: чӑвашсем, çăvaşsem; чува́ши.) are a Turkic ethnic group, a branch of the Ogurs, native to an area stretching from the Idel-Ural (Volga-Ural) region to Siberia. Most of them live in Chuvashia and the surrounding areas, although Chuvash communities may be found throughout the Russian Federation.

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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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District

A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government.

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Districts of Belarus

A district or raion (rayon,, rayony; rajon,, rajony) in Belarus is the second-level administrative division in the country which are subordinate to regions (also known as oblasts).

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Dregoviches

The Dregoviches, also called the Dregovichi, were an East Slavic tribal union.

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Dzyarechyn

Dzyarechyn (Dziarečyn; Derechin; Dereczyn) is an agrotown in Zelva District, Grodno Region, Belarus.

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Dzyatlava

Dzyatlava or Dyatlovo (Dziatlava; Дятлово; Zdzięcioł; Zhetl) is a town in Grodno Region, Belarus.

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Dzyatlava District

Dzyatlava District or Dziatlava District (Дзятлаўскі раён; Дятловский район) is a district (raion) of Grodno Region in Belarus.

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Early Slavs

The early Slavs were speakers of Indo-European dialects who lived during the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages (approximately from the 5th to the 10th centuries AD) in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe and established the foundations for the Slavic nations through the Slavic states of the Early and High Middle Ages.

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Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 230 million baptised members.

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Eparchy

Eparchy (ἐπαρχία eparchía "overlordship") is an ecclesiastical unit in Eastern Christianity that is equivalent to a diocese in Western Christianity.

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Ethnographic Lithuania

Ethnographic Lithuania is a concept that defines Lithuanian territories as a significant part of the territories that belonged to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Lithuanians as all people living on them, regardless of whether those people contemporarily or currently speak the Lithuanian language and considered themselves Lithuanian.

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Georgians

The Georgians, or Kartvelians (tr), are a nation and Caucasian ethnic group native to present-day Georgia and surrounding areas historically associated with the Georgian kingdoms.

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Grand Duchy of Lithuania

The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a sovereign state in northeastern Europe that existed from the 13th century, succeeding the Kingdom of Lithuania, to the late 18th century, when the territory was suppressed during the 1795 partitions of Poland–Lithuania.

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Grodno

Grodno (Гродно; Grodno) or Hrodna (Гродна) is a city in western Belarus.

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Grodno Azot

Grodno Azot (''Belarusian'' «Гро́дна Азо́т») is an open joint-stock company, Belarusian state-run producer of nitrogen compounds and fertilizers located in Grodno, Belarus.

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Grodno County

Grodno County was a county in the Northeast of Białystok Voivodeship of the Second Polish Republic.

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Grodno District

Grodno District or Hrodna District (Гродзенскі раён; Гродненский район) is a district (raion) of Grodno Region in Belarus.

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Grodno Ghetto

The Grodno Ghetto (getto w Grodnie, Гродзенскае гета, גטו גרודנו) was a Nazi ghetto established in November 1941 by Nazi Germany in the city of Grodno for the purpose of persecution and exploitation of Jews in Western Belarus.

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Grodno Governorate

Grodno Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Northwestern Krai of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Grodno.

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Grodno tobacco factory

Grodno tobacco factory "Neman", JSC (also GTF Neman, Nyoman; ААТ «Гродзенская тытунёвая фабрыка "Нёман"»; ОАО «Гродненская табачная фабрика "Нёман"») is the largest cigarette producer in Belarus located in Grodno (Hrodna).

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Human Development Index

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.

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Hyervyaty

Hyervyaty (Hierviaty; Gervyaty) is an agrotown in Astravyets District, Grodno Region, Belarus.

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Institute of National Remembrance

The Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej – Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu, abbreviated IPN) is a Polish state research institute in charge of education and archives which also includes two public prosecution service components exercising investigative, prosecution and lustration powers.

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Iwye

Iwye (Iŭje,; Ivye,; Yvija; Iwje; Ivye) is a town and former shtetl in Grodno Region, Belarus.

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Iwye District

Iwye District or Iŭje District (Iŭeŭski rajon; Ивьевский район) is a district (raion) of Grodno Region in Belarus.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.

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Kalozha Church

The Kalozha Church of Sts.

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Karelichy District

Karelichy District or Kareličy District (Карэліцкі раён; Кореличский район) is a district (raion) of Grodno Region in Belarus.

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Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country mostly in Central Asia, with a part in Eastern Europe.

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Lida

Lida (Ліда,; Лида,; Lyda; Ļida; Lida,; Lyde) is a city in Grodno Region, western Belarus, located west of Minsk.

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Lida Castle

Lida Castle (Лідскі замак, Lydos pilis, Zamek w Lidzie) is a historic, medieval castle in Lida, Grodno Region, western Belarus.

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Lida District

Lida District (Лідскі раён; Лидский район) is a district (raion) of Grodno Region in Belarus.

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List of cities and towns in Belarus

This is a list of cities and towns in Belarus.

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List of regions of Belarus by Human Development Index

This is a list of Regions of Belarus by Human Development Index as of 2021.

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Lithuania

Lithuania (Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe.

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Lithuanians

Lithuanians (lietuviai) are a Baltic ethnic group.

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Lithuanization

Lithuanization (or Lithuanianization) is a process of cultural assimilation, where Lithuanian culture or its language is voluntarily or forcibly adopted.

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Livonian War

The Livonian War (1558–1583) was fought for control of Old Livonia (in the territory of present-day Estonia and Latvia).

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Magdeburg rights

Magdeburg rights (Magdeburger Recht, Prawo magdeburskie, Magdeburgo teisė; also called Magdeburg Law) were a set of town privileges first developed by Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (936–973) and based on the Flemish Law, which regulated the degree of internal autonomy within cities and villages granted by the local ruler.

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Masty District

Masty District (Мастоўскі раён; Мостовский район) is a district (raion) of Grodno Region in Belarus.

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Masty, Belarus

Masty or Mosty (Масты; Мосты; Mosty) is a town in Grodno Region, Belarus.

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Minsk

Minsk (Мінск,; Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers.

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Minsk Region

Minsk Region, also known as Minsk Oblast or Minsk Voblasts (Minskaja voblasć,; Minskaya oblast), is one of the six regions of Belarus.

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Mir Castle Complex

The Mir Castle Complex (Mirski zamak; Мирский замок; Zamek w Mirze; Myriaus pilies kompleksas) is a historic fortified castle and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Belarus.

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Mir, Belarus

Mir (Мір; Мир; מיר) is an urban-type settlement in Karelichy District, Grodno Region, Belarus.

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Monastery

A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits).

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Monk

A monk (from μοναχός, monachos, "single, solitary" via Latin monachus) is a man who is a member of a religious order and lives in a monastery.

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Navahrudak Castle

The former castle in Navahrudak, Belarus (Навагрудскі замак, Naugarduko pilis, Zamek w Nowogródku) was one of the strongholds of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, cited by Maciej Stryjkowski as the location of Mindaugas's coronation as King of Lithuania as well as his likely burial place.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

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Neman

The Neman, Niemen or Nemunas is a river in Europe that rises in central Belarus and flows through Lithuania then forms the northern border of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia's western exclave, which specifically follows its southern channel.

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Novogrudok

Novogrudok or Navahrudak (Навагрудак; Новогрудок; Nowogródek, Naugardukas; נאַוואַראַדאָק) is a town in Grodno Region, Belarus.

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Novogrudok District

Novogrudok District or Navahrudak District (Navahrudski rajon; Novogrudsky rayon) is a district (raion) of Grodno Region in Belarus.

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Nowogródek Voivodeship (1507–1795)

Nowogródek Voivodeship (województwo nowogródzkie; Palatinatus Novogrodensis; Naugarduko vaivadija; Наваградзкае ваяводзтва) was a voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1507 to 1795, with the capital in the town of Nowogródek (now Novogrudok, Belarus).

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Nowogródek Voivodeship (1919–1939)

Nowogródek Voivodeship (Województwo nowogródzkie) was a unit of administrative division of the Second Polish Republic between 1919 and 1939, with the capital in Nowogródek (now Navahrudak, Belarus).

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Nun

A nun is a woman who vows to dedicate her life to religious service and contemplation, typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in the enclosure of a monastery or convent.

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Old Grodno Castle

The Old Grodno Castle (Стары замак; also known as the Grodno Upper Castle and Bathory's Castle) in Grodno, Belarus, originated in the 11th century as the seat of a dynasty of Black Ruthenian rulers, descended from a younger son of Yaroslav the Wise of Kiev.

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Order of Friars Minor

The Order of Friars Minor (also called the Franciscans, the Franciscan Order, or the Seraphic Order; postnominal abbreviation OFM) is a mendicant Catholic religious order, founded in 1209 by Francis of Assisi.

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Order of Saint Augustine

The Order of Saint Augustine (Ordo Fratrum Sancti Augustini), abbreviated OSA, is a religious mendicant order of the Catholic Church.

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Partitions of Poland

The Partitions of Poland were three partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that took place toward the end of the 18th century and ended the existence of the state, resulting in the elimination of sovereign Poland and Lithuania for 123 years.

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Podlaskie Voivodeship

Podlaskie Voivodeship (Województwo podlaskie) is a voivodeship (province) in northeastern Poland.

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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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Polish people

Polish people, or Poles, are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Central Europe.

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Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Poland–Lithuania, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and also referred to as the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or the First Polish Republic, was a bi-confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch in real union, who was both King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.

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Polish–Soviet War

The Polish–Soviet War (late autumn 1918 / 14 February 1919 – 18 March 1921) was fought primarily between the Second Polish Republic and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic before it became a union republic in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution, on territories which were previously held by the Russian Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy following the Partitions of Poland.

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Private town

Private towns in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth were privately owned towns within the lands owned by magnates, bishops, knights, princes, etc.

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Rada

Rada is the term for "parliament" or "assembly" or some other "council" in several Slavic languages.

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Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic

The Rada of the Belarusian National Republic (Rada Biełaruskaj Narodnaj Respubliki, label) was the governing body of the Belarusian Democratic Republic.

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Radziwiłł family

The House of Radziwiłł (Radvila; Radzivił; Radziwill) is a Polish princely family of Lithuanian origin, and one of the most powerful magnate families originating from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and later also prominent in the Crown of the Kingdom 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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Regions of Belarus

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

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Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Russian Orthodoxy

Russian Orthodoxy (Русское православие) is the theology, religious traditions, and practices related to the Russian Orthodox Church.

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The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR), previously known as the Russian Soviet Republic and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and unofficially as Soviet Russia,Declaration of Rights of the laboring and exploited people, article I. was an independent federal socialist state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest and most populous constituent republic of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1922 to 1991, until becoming a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with priority of Russian laws over Union-level legislation in 1990 and 1991, the last two years of the existence of the USSR..

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Russians

Russians (russkiye) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe.

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Sapotskin

Sapotskin (Sapockin; Sopotskin; Sapackinė; Sopoćkinie; Sapetkin) is an urban-type settlement in Grodno District, Grodno Region, Belarus.

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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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Selsoviet

A selsoviet (sieł'saviet; sel'sovet,; sil'rada) is the shortened name for a rural council (се́льскi саве́т; се́льский сове́т; сільська́ ра́да) and for the area governed by such a council (soviet).

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Shchuchyn

Shchuchyn (Ščučyn,; Shchuchin,; Szczuczyn; Shtshutshin) is a town in Grodno Region, Belarus.

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Shchuchyn District

Shchuchyn District or Ščučyn District (Шчучынскі раён; Щучинский район) is a district (raion) of Grodno Region in Belarus.

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Siberia

Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.

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Skidzyelʹ

Skidzyel or Skidel (Скідзель; Скидель; Skidlius; Skidel) is a town in Grodno District, Grodno Region, Belarus.

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Slonim

Slonim (Слонім; Слоним; Slanimas; Sloņima; Słonim; סלאָנים) is a town in Grodno Region, in western Belarus.

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Slonim District

Slonim District (Слонімскі раён; Слонимский район) is a district (raion) of Grodno Region in Belarus.

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Smarhon

Smarhon or Smorgon (Смаргонь,; Сморгонь; Smurgainys; Smorgonie; סמאָרגאָן) is a town in Grodno Region, Belarus.

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Smarhon District

Smarhon District or Smarhoń District (Смаргонскі раён; Сморгонский район) is a district (raion) of Grodno Region in Belarus.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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St Andrew's Church, Slonim

St Andrew's Church (Касцёл Святога Андрэя, Kościół św.) in Slonim is a Roman Catholic church built in 1775, a monument of Belarusian cultural heritage.

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St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, Grodno

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Stephen Báthory

Stephen Báthory (Báthory István; Stefan Batory;; 27 September 1533 – 12 December 1586) was Voivode of Transylvania (1571–1576), Prince of Transylvania (1576–1586), King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1576–1586).

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Svislach

Svislach or Svisloch (Svislač,; Свислочь; Świsłocz; סיסלעוויטש) is a town in Grodno Region, Belarus.

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Svislach District

Svislach District or Svislač District (Свіслацкі раён; Свислочский район) is a district (raion) of Grodno Region in Belarus.

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Swedish Empire

The Swedish Empire (stormaktstiden, "the Era as a Great Power") was the period in Swedish history spanning much of the 17th and early 18th centuries during which Sweden became a European great power that exercised territorial control over much of the Baltic region.

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Tatars

The Tatars, in the Collins English Dictionary formerly also spelt Tartars, is an umbrella term for different Turkic ethnic groups bearing the name "Tatar" across Eastern Europe and Asia. Initially, the ethnonym Tatar possibly referred to the Tatar confederation. That confederation was eventually incorporated into the Mongol Empire when Genghis Khan unified the various steppe tribes.

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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.

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Trakai Voivodeship

Trakai Voivodeship, Trakai Palatinate, or Troki Voivodeship (Palatinatus Trocensis, Trakų vaivadija, Województwo trockie), was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1413 until 1795.

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Treaty of Riga

The Treaty of Riga was signed in Riga, Latvia, on between Poland on one side and Soviet Russia (acting also on behalf of Soviet Belarus) and Soviet Ukraine on the other, ending the Polish–Soviet War (1919–1921).

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Treblinka extermination camp

Treblinka was the second-deadliest extermination camp to be built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II.

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Tsardom of Russia

The Tsardom of Russia, also known as the Tsardom of Muscovy, was the centralized Russian state from the assumption of the title of tsar by Ivan IV in 1547 until the foundation of the Russian Empire by Peter the Great in 1721. From 1550 to 1700, Russia grew by an average of per year. The period includes the upheavals of the transition from the Rurik to the Romanov dynasties, wars with the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Sweden, and the Ottoman Empire, and the Russian conquest of Siberia, to the reign of Peter the Great, who took power in 1689 and transformed the tsardom into an empire.

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Ukrainians

Ukrainians (ukraintsi) are a civic nation and an ethnic group native to Ukraine.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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Urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlementtranslit, abbreviated: translit; translit, abbreviated: translit; translit; osiedle typu miejskiego; translit; așezare de tip urban/orășenesc.

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Vawkavysk

Vawkavysk or Volkovysk (Vaŭkavysk; Волковыск; Wołkowysk; וואלקאוויסק) is a town in Grodno Region, Belarus.

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Vawkavysk District

Vawkavysk District or Vaŭkavysk District (Ваўкавыскі раён; Волковысский район) is a district (raion) of Grodno Region in Belarus.

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Vilnius County

Vilnius County (Vilniaus apskritis) is the largest of the 10 counties of Lithuania, located in the east of the country around the city Vilnius and is also known as Capital Region or Sostinės regionas by the Lithuanian statistics department and Eurostat.

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Vilnius Voivodeship

The Vilnius Voivodeship (Palatinatus Vilnensis, Vilniaus vaivadija, województwo wileńskie, Віленскае ваяводства) was one of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania's voivodeships, which existed from the voivodeship's creation in 1413 to the destruction of the Lithuanian state in 1795.

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Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija

The Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija or VLE is a 25-volume universal Lithuanian-language encyclopedia published by the Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing Institute from 2001 to 2014.

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Vitebsk Region

Vitebsk Region or Viciebsk Region, also known as Vitebsk Oblast or Vitsyebsk Voblasts (Viciebskaja voblasć.,; Vitebskaya oblast.), is one of the regions of Belarus.

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Voranava District

Voranava District (Воранаўскі раён; Вороновский район) is a district (raion) of Grodno Region in Belarus.

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Wilno Voivodeship (1926–1939)

The Wilno Voivodeship (województwo wileńskie) was one of 16 Voivodeships in the Second Polish Republic, with the capital in Wilno (now Vilnius, Lithuania).

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World Heritage Site

World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Yalta Conference

The Yalta Conference (Yaltinskaya konferentsiya), held 4–11 February 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.

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Yotvingians

Yotvingians (also called: Sudovians, Jatvians, or Jatvingians; Yotvingian: Jotvingai; Jotvingiai,; Jātvingi; Jaćwingowie, Яцвягі, Sudauer) were a Western Baltic people who were closely tied to the Old Prussians.

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Zelva District

Zelva District or Zeĺva District (Зэльвенскі раён; Зельвенский район) is a district (raion) of Grodno Region in Belarus.

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Zhyrovichy Monastery

Zhyrovichy Monastery (Жыровіцкі манастыр) is an Orthodox monastery in Belarus, in the village of Zhyrovichy (Slonim rajon, Hrodna voblast).

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References

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

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