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In 1802, the Belarus gubernia was abolished, and its territory was divided into the Vitebsk and Mogilev gubernias. Founded in 1796, the Slonim gubernia comprised 8 districts: Brest, Volkovysk, Grodno, Kobrin, Lida, Novogrudok, Pruzhany and Slonim.
The area of the Mogilev Governorate covered concomitant Belarus' Vitebsk, Mogilev and Gomel Regions. The area of the governorate was inhabited in the 10th century by the Slav tribes of the Krivichi and Radimichi. In the 14th century, the land became part of Lithuania, and later Poland. [1]
A governorate (Russian: губе́рния, romanized:gubérniya, pre-1918 spelling:губе́рнія, IPA: [ɡʊˈbʲernʲɪjə] ⓘ) was a major and principal administrative subdivision of the Russian Empire. After the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, governorates remained as subdivisions in the Byelorussian, Russian and Ukrainian Soviet ...
v. t. e. At the top level of administration, Belarus is divided into six regions and one capital city. The six regions are oblasts (also known as voblastsi), while the city of Minsk has a special status as the capital of Belarus. [ 1 ] Minsk also serves as the administrative center of Minsk Region. [ 2 ]
A December 18, 1842 Royal Edict reorganized the northwestern Russian Empire and created the Kovno Guberniya. That reorganization effected the Vilna and Grodno gubernii. The northern uezds of Vilna Guberniya (Novoaleksandrovsk, Rassein, Telshi, Shavli, Upita, Vilkomir, and part of Kovno) became a new guberniya called Kovno.
The old map of Belarus and Litva (Lithuania) published with the permission of the Russian Imperial Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1890: Northern gubernia's Southern gubernia's. Map of modern Belarus (185k) Dialects on Belarusian territory (291k) The map of Post Cold War Europe.
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Description of holdings. Amount of holdings: 5 941 fonds, 13 collections, 1 476 243 items Chronological scope: from 1917 to the present Geographical coverage: . abolished Minsk gubernia (province)
