BelarusandAND⤬THE JUNCTION
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Entangled histories

4 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · BLR LEFT · POL RIGHT

1. 1569

   Union of Lublin and the Commonwealth

   The Union of Lublin merged Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania into the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, placing the Belarusian lands at the heart of a vast federal state and accelerating the Polonisation of their elites.

   Politics & Power · from the Belarus chronicle · The Commonwealth, Partition and the Russian Empire · REFS 2 — Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, History of Belarus

2. 1772-1795

   Partitions of Poland and Russian annexation

   In three partitions Russia, Prussia and Austria divided the Commonwealth; Russia took most of the Belarusian lands, and after 1795 all of Belarus was ruled by the Russian Empire.

   Politics & Power · from the Belarus chronicle · The Commonwealth, Partition and the Russian Empire · REFS 2 — History of Belarus, Belarus

3. 18 Mar 1921

   Treaty of Riga partitions Belarus

   The treaty ending the Polish-Soviet War divided Belarus between Poland and Soviet Russia along the line of the first partition; western Belarus went to Poland and the east became the Byelorussian SSR.

   War & Rupture · from the Belarus chronicle · People's Republic, Soviet Republic and Terror · REFS 1 — Belarus: The emergence of the Belorussian S.S.R.

4. 17 Sep 1939

   Reunification of western Belarus

   Following the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and the German invasion of Poland, Soviet forces entered eastern Poland and western Belarus was annexed to the Byelorussian SSR, reuniting the Belarusian lands.

   Politics & Power · from the Belarus chronicle · Reunification, the Nazi Catastrophe and Soviet Belarus · REFS 2 — Belarus: The emergence of the Belorussian S.S.R., History of Belarus