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Belarusian culture is the product of a millennium of development under the impact of a number of diverse factors. These include the physical environment; the ethnographic background of Belarusians (the merger of Slavic newcomers with Baltic natives); the paganism of the early settlers and their hosts; Eastern Orthodox Christianity as a link to the Byzantine literary and cultural traditions; the country's lack of natural borders; the flow of rivers toward both the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea; and the variety of religions in the region (Catholicism, Orthodoxy, Judaism, and Islam).[1][2]
- ^ Jan Zaprudnik and Helen Fedor. "Culture", A Country Study: Belarus, Federal Research Division, Library of Congress; Helen Fedor, ed. Research completed June 1995
- ^ "About this Collection - Country Studies". Lcweb2.loc.gov. Retrieved 21 August 2017.