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Poles are now the third largest ethnic group in Belarus (see Polish minority in Belarus). There are around 15,000 of Lipka Tatars and about 10,000 of Ruska Roma (Russian Gypsies). In the post-war period Belarus experienced an influx of workers from other parts of the Soviet Union, for example Russians and Ukrainians.
Map of the cultural regions of Belarus (following Tsitou's ideas), superimposed over the administrative Regions of Belarus. Cultural regions of Belarus are historical and ethnographic regions that are located in the boundaries of what is now Belarus and are distinguished by a set of ethnocultural features: ethnic history, nature of settlement, economic activities and tools, folk architecture ...
English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions ... Ethnic organizations based in Belarus (1 C) P. Belarusian people of Polish descent ...
The Nazi regime had extensive plans for creating Lebensraum in Eastern Europe under Generalplan Ost, apart from invading and occupying large swaths of territory from modern Belarus, Russia and Ukraine during Operation Barbarossa (1941), and committing large-scale ethnic cleansing there, only Bialystok District (1941–1945, which included some ...
Russians in Belarus according to 2019 census. According to the 2019 census, there are 706,992 ethnic Russians in Belarus (Russian: Русские в Белоруссии, romanized: Russkie v Belorussii; Belarusian: Рускія ў Беларусі, romanized: Ruskija w Biełarusi), which accounts for approximately 7.5 percent of the population of Belarus. [1]
Ethnic Poles share in Belarus (2019 census), district level data. According to the 2019 census Polish minority in Belarus numbers officially about 287,693. After the Russian minority, Poles certainly form the second largest minority group in Belarus. [1] The majority of Poles live in the Western regions including 223,119 in the Grodno oblast.
Belarusian culture is the product of a millennium of development under the impact of a number of diverse factors. These include the physical environment; the ethnographic background of Belarusians (the merger of Slavic newcomers with Baltic natives); the paganism of the early settlers and their hosts; Eastern Orthodox Christianity as a link to the Byzantine literary and cultural traditions ...
The Lipka Tatars (the term Lipka refers to Lithuania; they are otherwise known as Lipkas or Lithuanian Tatars; later referred to as Polish Tatars, Polish–Lithuanian Tatars, Belarusian Tatars, Lipkowie, Lipcani, Muślimi, and Lietuvos totoriai) are a Tatar ethnic group and minority in Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus who originally settled in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the beginning of the ...