History of Belarus
In II-V cc. A.C. the Slavs penetrate on the territory of modern Belarus, who will absorb lived here before the Baltic tribes soon.
In the early Middle Ages on the territory of modern Belarus there were several principalities, the most powerful of which was Polotsk. The greatest flowering of Polotsk principality reached at Vsesyaav Charodei, which even reigned in Kiev for some time.
In the middle of the XIII century. Grand Duchy of Lithuania formed( at that time modern Belarus was known as Lithuania, but and it wasn’t modern Lithuania), one of the most powerful states in Europe at that time, stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea.
In 1569 as a result of Union Grand Duchy of Lithuania incorporated in a single state with Poland. After the three partitions of Poland in 1772, 1793 and 1795, Russia acceded to a modern Belarus.
An independent of Belarusian state was revived in the early XX century after the revolution of 1917. On March, 25th 1918 the Belarusian People’s Republic was proclaimed, but soon it was destroyed by the Bolsheviks, who announced the formation of the Byelorussian Soviet Republic on January, 1st 1919.
The territory of Belarus changed the border several times, and only in 1945 Belarus was adopted in the present boundaries.
From 1922 to 1991 Belarus as the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic was in the USSR.
