Eastern Belarus | |
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Country | Belarus |
Area | Historical region |
Today part of | Minsk; Minsk (partially), Mogilev, and Vitsebsk (partially) regions |
Eastern Belorussia (Eastern Belarus; Belarusian: Усхо́дняя Белару́сь, romanized: Uskhodniaia Bielarus) is a historical region of Belarus traditionally inhabited by members of the Eastern Orthodox Church, in contrast to the largely-Catholic western Belorussia. Historically dominated politically by the peasantry, eastern Belorussia was a stronghold of the Belarusian Socialist Assembly after the February Revolution and later became the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic during the interwar period.