Belarus: History and Famous Personalities

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Belarus: History and Famous Personalities

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Archaeology

Archaeology of Belarus, links from the Server of East-European Archaeology (ru)
Archaeology of the World: Belarus, links (ru)
ArchiS - Architecture & hiStory (ru)
Club of Archeological Culture in Gomel, Belarus (en)
Places of Archaelogical Interest in Vitebsk Outskirts, photo gallery (be)
Viking find in White Russia, from Viking Heritage Database (en)

History

A brief survey of Belarusian history & culture (en)
Belarus, from The History Channel (en)
Belarús: Historia, from Guia del Mundo (sp)
Belarus: History, from All About Belarus... (en)
Belarus. History, from Virgin.net (en)
Belarus Religious History, GlobalSecurity.org (en)
Belarus and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (en)
Belarus Philately and Postal History (en)
Belarusian Annals and Chronicles, book online (be)
Brzeska unia (1596), WIEM Encyklopedia (po)
Brest-Litovsk Treaty, from The First World War (en)
Country E-thologies: Belarus History (en, fr)
First Congress of RSDRP, Wikipedia (en, ru)
Historia Bialorusi (be, po)
Historical Dictionary of Belarus (en)
History and facts about Belarus (en)
History of Belarus (en)
History of Belarus, from Wikipedia (be, en)
History of Belarus, from Mother Earth Travel (en)
History of Belarus, links (ru)
History of Belarus, from Heritage Films (en)
History of Belarus (Great Litva) (be, en)
History of Belarus of IX-XVIII cc.: Firstprimary Sources, annals, documents, letters... (ru)
History of Belarusian Flags (en)
History of Broadcasting in Belarus (ru)
History of Christianity in Belarus (be, en, po, ru)
History of Printing, in Grodno and Belarus (ru)
History of Book Printing in Belarus (en, ru)
History of Russian-Belarusian relations in 1917-1922, from Observer magazine (ru)
History of the Republic of Belarus (en)
History of Justice, from Justice of Belarus Magazine (be, ru)
History of 19th century Belarus (en)
Information About The Belorussian Republic (en)
Komisja Edukacji Narodowej, Earliest Ministry of Education in Europe (po)
La storia della Bieloussia (it)
Literature on Belarus History (ru)
Lithuania History (en)
Lithuanian Youth Fraternity, Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions (en)
LookSmart - Belarusian History, links (en)
Magnus Ducatus Litvania (be)
Metrics of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (en)
Minsk Vedomosti Translation Center, the official newspaper for the Minsk Gubernya from 1838 to 1917 (en)
New Independent States - Belarus / National History (en)
Notes from the History of Belarus - from ancient times to the present moment (en)
Nyemiga Tragedy (en)
Nyemiga Tragedy (ru)
Old Belarusian letters (en)
Old Hetman Club: History of Belarus (ru)
Polish-Lithuanian State at Europe 18th Century Map (en)
Statut Vialikaha Kniastva Litouskaha 1588 (be)
Statute of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (en)
Ten Centuries of Belarusian History, book online (be)
The Annals of Jan Dlugosz (en)
The Belarusian Democratic Republic (BNR) (en)
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania (be)
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania (ru)
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania, 1253-1795 (en)
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Russia (ru)
The History of Belarusian Football (en)
The History of Belarusian Jewry (be, en, ru)
The Second Partition of Poland: 1793 (en)
The Union of Lublin, from A History of East Central Europe, by Oscar Halecki (en)
The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Belarusian History (be, en)
Unia polsko-litewska (1385-1791), WIEM Encyklopedia (po)
Union of Brest, The Catholic Encyclopedia (en)
White Russia (Belorussia): Short Description/History (en)
Wielkie Ksienstwo Litewskie (XIII w.-1795), WIEM Encyklopedia (po)
World History Archives: History of Belarus (en)
World History Compass: Belarus (en)

Chronology of Belarusian History

A Chronology of Events Important to Belarus (en)
Belarus: Chronology: 862-1991 (en)
Belarus: History, from Belarus In Your Pocket (en)
Chronology - Belarus 1989-99 (en)
Chronology of Important Events (en)
Chronology of the Magnus Ducatus of Litvania: 1253-1795 (be)
History of Belarus
Important Dates in the History of Belarus (en)
Main events, from Belarusian historic club (be, ru)
Major dates (en)
Major dates in the history of Belarus (en)
The Belarus Countdown - Bielaruski Adlik (be, en)
The Belarusian Chronicles (en)
Tidslinje for Hviderusland (du)
Timeline: A Bit of Belarusian History, on a diagram (en)
Timeline: Belarus, from BBC (en)

History of Regions & Cities

A Bobruisk History (en)
A Brief History of Bialystok (en)
A Brief History of Lida District (en)
A brief history of Pruzhany (en)
A Few Words About Towns of Those Days, from Viachka Tselesh' s book (en)
A little History of Minsk (en)
Baranovichi in the History (ru)
Belarus: historical demographical data of the urban centers (en)
Bobruisk chronicle (ru)
Bobruisk History (ru)
Bobruisk Yiskor Book, Historical Monograph by Ye.Slutsky (en)
Braslav history (ru)
Brest History (ru)
Brest-Litovsk, from The Jewish Encyclopedia (en)
Druya history (ru)
Gomel History (ru)
Gomel's History, from Gomel: Then & Now (en)
Grodno Gubernia (en)
Grodno short history (ru)
Guberniya District Maps, Grodno, Minsk, Vitebsk Guberniyas maps from the 1899 edition of Vsia Rossiia (en)
Historical Essay about Mogilev (ru)
History of Bobruisk City (ru)
History of Borisov (ru)
History of Brest, from BrestOnline (be, en)
History of Brest Region (en)
History of Gomel Oblast (ru)
History of Grodno (en)
History of Grodno (ru)
History of Grodno Gubernia (en)
History of City Lida and District of Lida (be, en)
History of Lida District (Uezd) (en)
History of Minsk, from eMinsk (ru)
History of Minsk City (ru)
History of Mogilev for 5 minutes (be, en, ru)
History of Molodechno (ru)
History of Mstislavl (ru)
History of Navahrudak (en)
History of Nesvizh (be)
History of Pinsk (en, ru)
History of Polatsk, some articles online (ru)
History of Polatsk (ru)
History of Smorgon (en)
Jewish memorial books about Belarusian towns and shtetels [in Belarusian]
Kobrin History (en)
Lida City History (en)
Lida of the Past Century, photos (en, ru)
Lida Powiat, from Slownik Geograficzny (en)
Minsk 100 Years Ago and Now, pictures of old and modern Minsk (en)
Minsk before 1917 (en)
Minsk History, from "Minsk: a Historical Guide" by Guy Picarda (en)
Minsk Gubernia, from 1903 Vsia Rossiia (en)
Minsk Litewski (po)
Mir History (en)
Mstislav History (be, de, en, po, ru)
Nowogrodek Powiat, from Slownik Geograficzny (en)
Old Vitebsk (en, ru)
Orsha History (ru)
Oszmiana powiat, from Slownik Geograficzny (en)
Polotsk Princedom (ru)
Polotsk Princedom at 12/13th Century Map (en)
Slutsk History (ru)
Stolbtsy before 1917 (en)
The General History of David-Horodok (en)
The History of Grodno, from Local History Articles (en)
The Origin of Grodnenskaya Guberniya (en)
Turov-Pinsk Princedom (ru)
Vitebsk Region History (ru)
Wilno History (en)
1834 Grodno Gubernia Map (en)
1834 Minsk Gubernia Map (en)
1834 Mogilev Gubernia Map (en)
1834 Vitebsk Gubernia Map (en)

Military History

Batalla de Minsk (1941) (it)
Battle of Minsk - 1941 (en, ru)
Borisov on the Berezina, Crossing the Berezina River by Napoleon's troops in 1812 (en)
Byelorussia and the Baltic, from World War II - The War at a Glance (en)
From the Military History of Bobruisk (ru)
Great Battles in the History of Belarusian Nation (en)
Great Patriotic War,1941-45, the data in Belarusian archives (en, ru)
Grunwald Battle (be)
History of Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus (ru)
Hitler's Plans for Eastern Europe (en)
Medieval Armies DBA Page: Lithuanian (1132 AD - 1435 AD) (en)
Military History Of The World: Belarus (en)
Military History Topics - Belarus (en)
Military Maps of WWII (en, ru)
Operation "Bagration", in the summer of 1944 (en)
Pinsk Military River Flotilla (June 17, 1940 - October 5, 1941) (ru)
Ryski traktat pokojowy (1921) (po)
Spoils of War: Country Reports - Belarus (en)
The Annual Battle of Grunwald - Anno Domini 1998 (en)
The Battle of Grunwald 1410 (en)
The Battle of Grunwald (Tannenburg), from Brief History of Poland (en)
The Battle near Navahrudak in 1314 (be)
The Battle on Nemiga River (be)
The defence of the Brest Fortress, in the begining of WWII (en, ru)
The Great Belarusian Military Commanders (en)
The Lay of Igor's Raid, about Battle on the Nemiga River (en)
The Militias of Magnate Towns in Belorussia and Lithuania in the 16th-18th centuries (en)
The Park of Grunwald battle, from Litnet (en)
The Peace Treaty of Brest of 1918 and Belarus (ru)
The Unknown War, 1654-67, book online (be)
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (en)
The Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, from The World War I Document Archive (en)
Treaty of Riga, from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001(en)
Wars with Lithuania, excerpt from Alfred Rambaud, Russia (en)
3 March, 1918: The Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, from World War I Document Archive (en)
The Khatyn Memorial
- Gedenkstätte Chatyn (de)
- Khatyn (ru)
- Le village de la memoire Khatyn (fr)
- Memorial complex Khatyn, official site (be, de, en, ru)
- The Chatyn (Khatyn) Memorial (en)

Belarusian Historical Figures

A List of Belarusian Historical Figures, links
Belarusian Heritage: Famous Belarusians (en)
Belarusian Saints and Blessed, links
Culture of Belarus: People of Culture (en)
Famous Belarusians (en)
Grand Dukes of Ancient Belarus (be)
History of Belarus. Personalities (be)
Nasy slavutyja ziemlaki, Our Notable Countrymen (be)
Regnal Chronologies: Belarus (en)
Rospis' knyazhenii po volostyam, according to K.Ryzhov (la, ru)

People born in Belarus

Famous People Born in Belarus
Belarusian Painters
Belarusian Poets and Writers
Belarusian Sportsmen
Chechot's Genealogical Tree (en, ru)
Decemberists and Brest Lands (ru)
Famous tutors and students of Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts (en, li)
History of Catholic Parish in Kazan (ru)
Mathematicians born in Belarus (en)
Natural Science in Belarus in the XIXth Century and the Beginning of the XXth Century (en, ru)
NHL Players Born in Belarus (en)
Peoples of the Grand Duchy (ru)
The Declaration of Independence of Israel Was Signed by the Native of Belarus, from Belaruskaya Delovaya Gazeta (ru)
The famous people of Pruzhany (ru)
They dream about Belarus, well-known and unknown Belarusians (be)
They dream about Belarus - 2, well-known and unknown Belarusians (be)
Tumilowicz h. Ostoja Family Genealogy (en)
Tverbus-Tverdie Family Chronicle (ru)

People with roots in Belarus

Famous People with Roots in Belarus
A Thousand Genealogy Links: Belarus (en)
A.L. Bell's Genealogy Resource Center (en)
Association of the Belarusian Nobility (be, en)
Belarus: Homeland of the Great, from Human Development Report 1996 (en)
Belarus Genealogy Forum, from GenForum (en)
Belarus Research: Belarus - White Russia - Genealogy, from Poland Border Surnames (en)
Belarusian Genealogy (en)
Buevich Genealogy (ru)
Country of Belorussia Club, from GenCircles (en)
Family Tree Belarus, genealogy service (en)
Foraj Kuzoj el Belarusio, Belarusian Distant Cousins (cz, de, en, ep, fr, it, po, sp)
Genealogy - Belarus - White Russia (en)
Genealogy of the Belarusian nobility and gentry (shliakhta), fromGenealogy and History Center (en, ru)
Genealogy Related to Belarus (en)
History of Olshansky Family (ru)
History of the noble family Konstantynowicz from GDL (en)
Jewish Genealogy: Belarus (en)
Marecki-Marzecki Family Members Club (be, en, po, ru)
Marshals and Generals with Belarusian Genealogy (ru)
Michal Kleofas Oginski family tree (be, en)
Poklevskie-Koziel Dynasty (ru)
Polesye-Genealogy (ru)
Professional Genealogical Researcher - for Belarus (Russia) (en)
Search People in Belarus (ru)
Small Armorial of Kholopenichi nobility (en, ru)
The Mineyko Genealogy (en, po, ru)
The Skirmunts: Businessmen Dynasty (ru)
U.S. Remembers - Famous Belarusian Americans (en, po)

Archives, Burial Places

Archives of Belarus (en, ru)
Archives of the Republic of Belarus, from Heritage International, Inc. (ru)
Belarusian State Archive of Documentary Photographs, Films and Phonograms (BGAKFFD) (en, ru)
Belarusian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation (BGANTD) (en, ru)
Belarusian State Archive-Museum of Literature and Arts (BGAMLI) (en, ru)
Central Scientific Archive of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (en)
Cmentarz polskiej szlachty w Minsku Litewskim - Kalwaria (po)
Jewish Cemeteries in Belarus (en)
National Archive of the Republic of Belarus, Official site (ru)
National Historical Archive of Belarus in Grodno City (en, ru)
National Historical Archive of the Republic of Belarus (NIAB) (en, ru)
Preliminary List of Cemeteries in Belarus, from Belarus SIG Newsletter (en)
Researching Russian Roots: Belarus (en, ru)
Sources from the National Historical Archives of Belarus in Minsk (en)
Szlacheckie groby na polskich cmentarzach (po)
The National Center for Archives and Records Management (en, ru)

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