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Within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Davyd-Haradok was part of Brest Litovsk Voivodeship. In 1793, Davyd-Haradok was acquired by the Russian Empire in the course of the Second Partition of Poland . The 18 March 1921 Peace of Riga between Poland on one side and Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine on the other defined Davyd-Haradok (Dawidgródek) as ...
Brest is the province with the highest birth rate in all of Belarus. As of 2008, the birth rate was 12.0 per 1000 and death rate was 13.4 per 1000. [10] In 2017, 12.4% of live births were to unmarried women (average in Belarus — 18.1%). [11]
Under the Nazi German occupying administration — which had merged Byaroza, along with most of western Polesia, into the Reichskommissariat Ukraine — more than 8,000 people were killed in mass executions or were starved to death. Numerous pro-Soviet and pro-Ukrainian partisan units were active in the area around Byaroza before Red Army ...
Yevno Fishelevich Azef was born in Lyskava (now Brest Region, Belarus) in 1869, the second of seven children of a poor Jewish tailor. His father moved to Rostov with the family when Yevno was five and opened a drapery but barely made enough money to get his children through school. [1]
Renamed to Janów, in 1465 it was granted city rights. A small town in Polesia, it shared the fate of the region. On May 16, 1657, it was the seat of the martyrdom of Saint Andrzej Bobola. Annexed by Russia during the Partitions of Poland in 1795, the town did not develop much, mostly because of the proximity to the much more populous town of ...
During the Livonian War, Sharashova was a gathering point for Polish–Lithuanian troops in 1578 against Ivan IV of Russia after he had occupied Livonia. [4] In the 1790s, Sharashova had an estimated population of 3,360. [5] At the 1897 census of the Russian Empire, the settlement had a population of 5,079. [5]
Luninyets or Luninets (Belarusian: Лунінец, romanized: Luniniec; Russian: Лунинец; [2] Polish: Łuniniec; Yiddish: לונינייץ, romanized: Luninitz) is a town in Brest Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Luninyets District. [1] As of 2024, it has a population of 23,592. [1] It is home to Luninets air base.
After the death of his son Stanislav in 1542 the town passed to the widow of the latter, Barbara Radziwiłł, who in 1547 married the heir to the Polish throne, bringing to him the numerous possessions of the Goštautas family. On April 10, 1572, Sigismund II Augustus transferred the town to the castellan of Vilna, Jan Hieronimowicz Chodkiewicz.