Historical regions in Belarus

Polesia, also called Polissia, Polesie, or Polesye, is a natural (geographic) and historical region in Eastern Europe within the East European Plain, including the Belarus–Ukraine border region and part of eastern Poland. This region should not be confused with parts of Russia also traditionally called "Polesie".

Eastern Borderlands (), often simply Borderlands (, ) was a historical region of the eastern part of the Second Polish Republic. The term was coined during the interwar period (1918–1939). Largely agricultural and extensively multi-ethnic with a Polish minority, it amounted to nearly half of the territory of interwar Poland. Historically situated in the eastern Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, following the 18th-century foreign partitions it was divided between the Empires of Russia and Austria-Hungary, and ceded to Poland in 1921 after the Treaty of Riga. As a result of the post-World War II b

Podlachia, also known by its Polish name Podlasie (; ; ), is a historical region in north-eastern Poland. Its largest city is Białystok, whereas the historical capital is Drohiczyn.

historical region of Belarus

Severia (, ; ) or Siveria ( / , Siveria / Sivershchyna) is a historical region in present-day southwest Russia, northern Ukraine, and eastern Belarus. The largest part lies in modern Russia, while the central part of the region is the city of Chernihiv in Ukraine.

archaic name for a historical region in Belarus

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historical region in present-day Lithuania and Belarus

former territories of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth invaded by the Russian Empire in the course of Partitions of Poland

300px|thumb|Distribution of Slavic tribes in the 9th century. The Polochan territory is located near the upper Western Dvina River. Polochans (, ) were a tribe of early East Slavs, who inhabited the area in the middle of the Western Dvina in the 9th century. Alternative meaning: inhabitants of Polotsk.

historical region of Belarus

thumb|upright|In 1019 Brest was first mentioned in chronicles as Berestye Berestia (; ,), is the part of Belarusian, and Ukrainian ethnic territory, bounded by the Bug River, Pripyat River, Yaselda River, and Narew (Narva) River, and a borderland between historical Podlachia () and the Land of Brest-Litovsk () part of Polesia ().