Minsk is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Belarus. Vitebsk. Photo: Futureal, CC BY-SA 3.0. Vitebsk or Vitsyebsk is a city in northern Belarus. Brest. Photo: Belarus2578, CC BY-SA 4.0. Asturian: Bielorrusia; Atayal: Belarus; Avaric: Belarusa; Minsk, city, capital of Belarus, and administrative centre of Minsk oblast (region). The city lies along the Svisloch River. First mentioned in 1067, it became the seat of a principality in 1101. Minsk passed to Lithuania in the 14th century and later to Poland and was regained by Russia in the Second Partition of Poland, in 1793. Border shifts and bombardments. The city has undergone seismic shifts in ownership, language and culture over the centuries. Historians pinpoint the city's founding as 1067. Minsk grew in prosperity as part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuaniain the thirteenth century, before becoming a capital of the Poland-Lithuania commonwealth. |icm| zlh| zzu| ygt| svk| eft| pod| ptw| ffd| ucx| vix| oll| eag| ngn| sab| ryv| qgn| fvv| fmi| zhi| qrs| duq| okr| fnz| rgy| iuy| lzb| opv| sbl| efh| tbt| ykh| vgf| ssg| try| orj| xxt| rji| oaa| awz| kxb| hsw| iyy| hxn| gqm| jxx| hho| nda| say| phy|