Atlas of Belarus

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Belarus
Беларусь
Беларуская Беларусь - Рэспубліка Беларусь[1]

Рэспубліка Беларусь — краіна ва Усходняй Еўропе, буйнейшая па тэрыторыі ў Еўропе краіна бяз выхаду да мора. Мяжуе з Польшчай на захадзе, Лiтвой на паўночным захадзе, Латвіяй на поўначы, Расiяй на ўсходзе і Украінай на поўдні.

Русский Белоруссия - Республика Беларусь[2]

Республика Беларусь, Белору́ссия — государство в Восточной Европе, с 2 апреля 1997 член Союза России и Белоруссии. В 1922—1991 бывшая Белорусская Советская Социалистическая Республика была членом-учредителем СССР. Страна также является членом-учредителем ООН, СНГ, ОДКБ, Евразэса, а также членом других международных объединений.

English Belarus - Republic of Belarus

The Republic of Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordering ► Russia, ► Ukraine, ► Poland, ► Lithuania, and ► Latvia. Its capital is Minsk, and other important cities include Brest, Grodno, Gomel, Mogilev and Vitebsk. One third of the country's surface is covered in forests.

Short name  Belarus
Official name Republic of Belarus
Status Independent country since 1991
Location East Europe
Capital Мінск[3]
Минск[4]
Population 9,408,400 inhabitants
Area 207,600 square kilometres (80,200 sq mi)
Major languages Belarusian, Russian (both official)
Major religions Orthodoxy
More information Belarus, Geography of Belarus, History of Belarus and Politics of Belarus
More images Belarus - Belarus (Category).

General maps

Map of Belarus
Map of Belarus
Map of Belarus
Map of Belarus

Maps of divisions

This section holds maps of the administrative divisions.

Administrative divisions of Belarus (in Belarusian)
Administrative divisions of Belarus (in English)
Administrative divisions of Belarus (with numbers)

History maps

This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Belarus, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Belarus.

Possible extent of (proto-)Celtic influence 800-400 BC
Celts in Europe
Proto-Germanic people's
Map showing the pre-Migration Age distribution of the Germanic tribes in Proto-Germanic times, and stages of their expansion up to 50 BC, AD 100 and AD 300.
Map of Scythia 100 BC
State of the Antes in the 6th century (around 560), according to the book of Francis Dvornik
Early Rus'
Varangian routes

Map showing changes in borders of the Mongol Empire from founding by Genghis Khan in 1206, Genghis Khan's death in 1227 to the rule of Kublai Khan (1260–1294). (Uses modern day borders)

 
Mongol Empire

By 1294 the empire had split into:

 
Empire of the Great Khan (Yuan Dynasty)

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Volhynia in the 13th century
Map showing changes in the territory of Lithuania including present-day Belarus from the 13th century to the present day
Lithuania in the 13th and 15th century
Map of Lithuania
In 1386 Poland and Lithuania formed a Polish-Lithuanian personal union, succeeded in 1569 by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Large parts of present-day Belarus and Ukraine were part of Poland-Lithuania. This map shows the borders in 1466
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1569
Location of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth
Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth compared with present borders
Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth
Polish-Swedish Union 1592-1599
Commonwealth 1600
Commonwealth 1635
Commonwealth 1658
Commonwealth 1686
Commonwealth, division in voivodships
Samogitia, Lithuania Proper and Lithuanian White Ruthenia in 1700
Commonwealth 1701
Commonwealth 1701
7 years war 1756-1762
The divisions of the Commonwealth
Commonwealth after 1st partition
Polish-Russian War 1792
Commonwealth after 2nd partition
Poland 1794
The third partition meant the end of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the final division between Prussia, Russia and Austria after 3rd partition
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire in 1866
History of the Russian Empire (in German)
Russia in 1912
Ethnological map of Lithuania and Belarus in 1893
After the Russian revolution, Poland reconquered White Russia. A war between Poland and the new regime in Russia started March 1919
December 1919
June 1920
August 1920
Borders of newly independent Poland after the Peace Treaty of Riga of 1921
Foreign claims in Poland in 1920
Comparison 1789-1920
Western White Russia is part of Poland. Poland between 1921 and 1939
Poland 1921-1939
Curzon line
Eastern front of the Second World War circa 1941-1942.
Byelorussian SSR upon the outbreak of WWII
BSSR 20.09.1944 - 16.08.1945
Evolution of the Soviet Union
Changing of the borders
Border changes after WW2 (Russian text)
Belarus inside the Soviet Union
Administrative divisions 1960-1993

Old maps

This section holds copies of original general maps more than 70 years old.

Map of the territory claimed by the Belarusian National Republic (published in 1918)

Satellite maps

Satellite map of Belarus

Notes and references

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  1. ↑ Romanization: Belarus' - Respublika Belarus'.
  2. ↑ Romanization of Russian according to the BGN/PCGN standard: Byelorussiya - Respublika Byelarus'. Another used romanization is the ISO 9 standard.
  3. ↑ Romanization: Mìnsk
  4. ↑ Romanization of Russian according to the BGN/PCGN standard: Minsk. Another used romanization is the ISO 9 standard.

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References

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