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Minsk Central Bus Station Nowadays Stadler FLIRT train (EPg), Minsk train station. Minsk is the largest transport hub in Belarus. Minsk is located at the junction of the Warsaw-Moscow railway (built in 1871) running from the southwest to the northeast of the city and the Liepaja-Romny railway (built in 1873) running from the northwest to the ...
Minsk: The Old East Slavic name of the town was Мѣньскъ (i.e. Měnsk < Early Proto-Slavic or Late Indo-European Mēnĭskŭ), derived from a river name Měn (< Mēnŭ, with the same etymology as German Main; from Latin Moenus or Menus).
Minsk paid large retributions to both foreign armies. Minsk city hall. The last decades of the Polish-Lithuanian rule were indicated by decline or very slow development. Minsk was a small provincial town of little economic or military significance. By 1790 it had population of 6,500–7,000 and was slowly rebuilding to the city limits of 1654.
The name Belarus is closely related with the term Belaya Rus', i.e., White Rus'. [15] There are several claims to the origin of the name White Rus'. [16] An ethno-religious theory suggests that the name used to describe the part of old Ruthenian lands within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania that had been populated mostly by Slavs who had been Christianized early, as opposed to Black Ruthenia ...
Jews in the Minsk Ghetto, 1941 Mass murder of Soviet civilians near Minsk, 1943 German troops in Minsk during their occupation of the city, August 1941. When the Soviet Union invaded Poland on September 17, 1939, following the terms of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact's secret protocol, Western Byelorussia, which was part of Poland, is included in ...
[4] [5] There are two theories behind the origin of Rus'/Ruotsi, which are not mutually exclusive. It is either derived more directly from OEN rōþer (OWN róðr [4]), which referred to rowing, the fleet levy, etc., or it is derived from this term through Rōþin, an older name for the Swedish coastal region Roslagen.
1067 - The Battle on the Nemiga River occurs near Minsk. [2] 1101 - Gleb Vseslavich becomes the prince of Minsk. 1104 - Town besieged by Kiev forces. 1115 - Town besieged by Kiev forces again. 1129 - Town becomes part of Kievan Rus'. 1242 - Town becomes part of Grand Duchy of Lithuania. 1413 - Minsk becomes part of the Vilnius Voivodeship. [3]
The Principality of Minsk was an appanage principality of the Principality of Polotsk and centered on the city of Minsk (today in Belarus). [1] It existed from its founding in 1101 until it was nominally annexed by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1242, and then fell under de facto annexation in 1326.