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    Mitrofan Dovnar-Zapolsky (category Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv alumni)
    more than 30 works on ethography and folklore of Belarus. Author of writings on ethnography (since 1883), head of extensive ethnographical expedition in...
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    People's Republic in 1918 before Belarus became a Soviet Republic, then by the Belarusian national movement in West Belarus followed by widespread unofficial...
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  • Romani folklore encompasses the folktales, myths, oral traditions, and legends of the Romani people. The Romani were nomadic when they departed India during...
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    years translating the epic The Tale of Igor's Campaign (1870) into modern Russian. He translated the folklore of Belarus, Greece, Serbia and Spain, as well...
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  • (Jesus of Nazareth) was crucified and it is the location of a sabbath it which Margarita takes part. In 1970s, in Belarus, an anonymous poem A Tale of the...
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    The Russification of Belarus (Belarusian: Русіфікацыя Беларусі, romanized: Rusifikatsyya Byelarusi; Russian: Русификация Беларуси, romanized: Rusifikatsiya...
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    Slavic language. It is one of the two official languages in Belarus, alongside Russian. Additionally, it is spoken in some parts of Russia, Lithuania, Latvia...
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    Soviet Belarus, or simply Belarus, was a republic of the Soviet Union (USSR). It existed between 1920 and 1991 as one of fifteen constituent republics of the...
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    Gosudarstvennyĭ gerb Respubliki Belarusʹ (Государственный герб Республики Беларусь). Between 1991 and 1995, Belarus used a coat of arms, known as the Pahonia...
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    the sole native languages of Belarus, as seen below. The language situation in Belarus is characterized by a co-existence of several linguistic codes....
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  • Radio Belarus (Belarusian: Радыё "Беларусь") is the official international broadcasting station of Belarus. The station has ceased broadcasting on shortwave...
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    Ukrainian fairy tale (category Ukrainian folklore)
    along with folklore from Belarus. When Ukrainian folklore has been labeled as Russian, Ukrainian folk tales can be discerned from Russian folklore from the...
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    is an agrotown in Vilyeyka District, Minsk Region, Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Ilya selsoviet. It is first mentioned in historical...
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    transition, maintaining state ownership of key industries in Belarus. This spared Belarus from recessions as devastating as those in other post-Soviet...
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    north-east Poland, Belarus, Lithuania, south-east Latvia and Ukraine. Today most reside in Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus. Most of the Lipka Tatars (80%)...
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    studies of folklore are all forms of folklorism. The term fakelore is often used by those who seek to expose or debunk modern reworkings of folklore, including...
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    Council of Organizations of Folklore Festivals and Folk Arts (CIOFF, French: Conseil international des organisations de festivals de folklore et d'arts...
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    (medicine, biology). After Belarus gained its independence, the Academy continued its work as the Academy of Sciences of Belarus between 1991–1997. In 1997...
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    Ukrainian literature and Russian literature. A separate literary tradition of Belarus became apparent only in the 14th–15th centuries. The old Belarusian literature...
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    Vitebsk (redirect from Viciebsk, Belarus)
    [ˈvʲitʲɪpsk]; Yiddish: וויטעבסק) is a city in northern Belarus. It serves as the administrative center of Vitebsk Region and Vitebsk District, though it is...
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    This is a list of women who engaged in war, found throughout mythology and folklore, studied in fields such as literature, sociology, psychology, anthropology...
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  • the Wild Hunt - a folklore motif (Motif E501 in Stith Thompson's Motif Index of Folklore) that historically occurs in the folklore of various Northern...
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    This list covers the many types of vampires, vampire-like legendary creatures of global folklore or people that were supposedly vampires. It does not include...
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  • of the cultures of Slavic Europe. East Slavs: Culture of Belarus Culture of Russia Culture of Kievan Rus' Culture of Ukraine South Slavs: Culture of Bosnia...
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  • female night demon in Turkish folklore Liber AL, the central sacred text of Thelema Arab League, a regional organisation of 22 Arab states Alternative List...
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    dance (rus.) Authenticity of Belarusian folk dances Dance Ensembles The State Dance Ensemble of Belarus (Ensemble) Folklore Programs New Belarusian Dance:...
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    Russian Fairy Tales (category Slavic folklore)
    and 1863. The collection contained fairy and folk tales from Ukraine and Belarus alongside Russian stories. His literary work was explicitly modeled after...
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    Presented below are lists of notable Belarusians of Jewish descent, Jewish people born on the territory of present-day Belarus or of full or partial Belarusian...
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    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...
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    cultural model and the reconstruction of Ancient Slavic ideas remain the linguistic, ethnographic and folklore studies of Slavic traditions from the 19th and...
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