Questions tagged [belarus]
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Why did the "Ruthenians" break up into "Belarusians" and "Ukrainians?"
The Ruthenians were a group of East Slavic people in Kievan Rus that are not what we would call "Russians" today. The term refers mainly to Belarussians and Ukrainians, the two largest ...
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Where does the name of the country "Belarus" come from?
I've read the German and English Wikipedia on this topic as well as the translated Belarussian version and some sites I googled.
They all seem to argue that the 'Rus' part stems from the Region called ...
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