Initially successful, the Russians captured Polotsk, in Lithuanian Belorussia (1563), and occupied Lithuanian territory up to Vilna.
In any case, miracles and legends spread the cult of the martyred bishop to Lithuania, Belorussia, and Ukraine, and Stanislaus became the patron saint of his native Poland.
Coincidentally, the following three leading women poets were born in Belorussia (now Belarus), lived for a while in Warsaw, and later moved to New York.
The Russians then settled into winter camps, and uprisings sympathetic to the Poles broke out in Russian-controlled Lithuania, Belorussia, and Ukraine (spring 1831).
However, on July 28 , 1941 an Ostland province, consisting of the three Baltic countries and Belorussia (now Belarus), was created.
By the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (March 3, 1918), Soviet Russia recognized Finland and the Ukraine as independent; renounced control over Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and most of Belorussia; and ceded Kars, Ardahan, and Batumi to Turkey.
After 1918 several thousand former Eastern Catholics in Belorussia, which was then under Poland, returned to the Catholic Church, and an apostolic visitor was appointed for them.
Under the Soviet Union, when flags of distinctive designs were first being developed for the union republics, Belarus (then known as Belorussia) in 1951 adopted a flag that had an embroidery pattern running vertically near the hoist.
The Belorussia-born parliamentarian is similarly measured when discussing the soon-to-be-announced Middle East "road map".
Citing information from what it said was a government investigation, Mr. Lukashenko's official newspaper, Sovietskaya Belorussia, said secret services and even diplomats from both countries helped plan and finance what was supposed to be a violent government takeover after presidential elections last month.
On Friday, Mr. Lukashenko's official newspaper, Sovietskaya Belorussia, published an article accusing Mr. Sannikov and Irina Khalip of receiving millions of dollars in foreign financing to aid in overthrowing the government.
