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White Ruthenia (Belarusian: Белая Русь, romanized: Biełaja Ruś; Polish: Ruś Biała; Russian: Белая Русь, romanized: Belaya Rus'; Ukrainian: Біла Русь, romanized: Bila Ruś) — one of the historical divisions of Kievan Rus' according to the color scheme, which also includes Black and Red Ruthenia. In the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern period, the name White Ruthenia was characterized by instability, designating a number of different regions on the territory of modern Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. It is recorded mainly in Western European sources, starting from the middle of the XIII century.
Slavs. Russia itself was called Great Ruthenia or WhiteRuthenia until the end of the 17th century. "Rusia or Ruthenia" appears in the 1520 Latin treatise...
Red Ruthenia, or Red Rus' (Latin: Ruthenia Rubra; Russia Rubra; Ukrainian: Червона Русь, romanized: Chervona Rus'; Polish: Ruś Czerwona; Russian: Красная...
Look up White Russia or White Russian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. White Russia, White Russian, or Russian White may refer to: WhiteRuthenia, a historical...
influences mixed and interfered. The first Latin Church diocese in WhiteRuthenia was established in Turaŭ between 1008 and 1013. Catholicism was a traditionally...
Carpathian Ruthenia (Rusyn: Карпатьска Русь, romanized: Karpat'ska Rus') is a historical region on the border between Central and Eastern Europe, mostly...
'White Sea': Mediterranean Sea in Turkish Balts, Baltic words containing the stem balt- ("white") Belarus, meaning 'White Russia' WhiteRutheniaWhite...
Before, they were typically known as White Russians or White Ruthenians (from White Russia or WhiteRuthenia, based on "Белая Русь"). Upon Belarusian...
region WhiteRuthenia (White Rus'), an East Slavic historical region Red Ruthenia (Red Rus'), an East Slavic historical region Black Ruthenia (Black Rus')...
refer to: Ruthenia, a name applied to various East Slavic inhabited lands WhiteRuthenia, an East Slavic historical region Black Ruthenia, an East Slavic...
regions with canyon-like fluvial valleys. Podolia lies east of historic Red Ruthenia, i.e. the eastern half of Galicia, beyond the Seret River, a tributary...
can be literally translated as WhiteRuthenia. Max Vasmer's dictionary suggests that the name may have come from the white clothing worn by the local Slavic...
White Ruthenians may refer to: inhabitants of the historical region of WhiteRuthenia in general historical and exonymic term for Belarusians Ruthenia...
Duchy of Moscow from other East Slavs such as people from WhiteRuthenia (Belarusians), Red Ruthenia (Ukrainians), and others). With time, the word became...
The Regional Party of Lithuania and WhiteRuthenia was a political party of major Polish-speaking (mostly of Belarusian origin) nobility and landlords...
Nations: Poland Hungary Lithuania Ukraine Czechoslovakia Latvia Estonia WhiteRuthenia (Belarus) Romania East Germany Bulgaria Mainland China Armenia Azerbaijan...
conflated with its Latin forms Russia and Ruthenia, thus Belarus is often referred to as White Russia or WhiteRuthenia. The name first appeared in German and...
King of Ruthenia, King of Rus', King of Galicia and Lodomeria, Lord and Heir of Ruthenian Lands (Ukrainian: Король Русі, король Галичини і Володимирії...
Generalbezirk Weissruthenien (General District WhiteRuthenia) was one of the four administrative subdivisions of Reichskommissariat Ostland, the 1941–1945...
Prussia from 1933 to 1936. He was the Generalkommissar for Weißruthenien (WhiteRuthenia) in the Reichskommissariat Ostland from 1941 until assassinated by partisans...
West Prussia Rhineland Rhenish Hesse RutheniaWhiteRuthenia or Belarus Black Ruthenia Carpathian Ruthenia Red Ruthenia Saxony Meissenland Osterland Pleissnerland...
included in (or was in the sphere of influence of) the Grand Duchy of Kyiv (Ruthenia) as early as the tenth century. At that time Princess Olga sent a punitive...
Black Seas. These entities were Greater Finland, the Baltic region, WhiteRuthenia (Belarus), Greater Ukraine, Greater Caucasia, Turkestan, Idel-Ural,...
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