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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.
Belarus, [b] officially the Republic of Belarus, [c] is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an area of 207,600 square kilometres (80,200 sq mi) with a population of 9.1 million.
Ethnic groups in Belarus (7 C, 14 P) ... Ethnic groups in Spain (11 C, 19 P) ... Category: Ethnic groups in Europe by country.
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 ...
However, it did not correspond to an ethnic or confessional division, as Lithuania proper included a large part of central and western Belarus with cities such as Polotsk, Vitebsk, Orsha, Minsk, Barysaw and Slutsk, while the remaining lands inhabited by Slavs were called Rus. [45] From the 17th century onward, the name White Ruthenia ...
Ethnic classifications vary from country to country and are therefore not comparable across countries. While some countries make classifications based on broad ancestry groups or characteristics such as skin color (e.g., the white ethnic category in the United States and some other countries), other countries use various ethnic, cultural ...
The peculiar conditions that prevailed in Belarus compelled the first Jewish settlers to adopt a different mode of life from that followed by their western ethnic brethren. At that time there were no cities in the western sense of the word in Belarus, no Magdeburg Rights or close guilds at that time. [citation needed]
Ethnic organizations based in Belarus (1 C) P. Belarusian people of Polish descent (1 C, 21 P) R. Belarusian people of Russian descent (2 C, 20 P) V. Volhynian Jews ...