Polesia

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Polesia
Палессе • Полісся
Polesie
Natural and historical region
Ubort River near the city of Olevsk (Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine)
Polesia marked in dark green
Polesia marked in dark green
CountriesBelarus, Poland, Russia and Ukraine

Polesia, Polissia, Polesie, or Polesye[a] is a natural and historical region in Eastern Europe, including part of Eastern Poland, the BelarusUkraine border region.[1]

Polesia (Polesie) and other historical lands of Poland against the background of modern administrative borders (names in Polish)

Extent

One of the largest forest areas on the continent, Polesia is located in the southwestern part of the

Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and Polesie State Radioecological Reserve
, named after the region.

Name

The names Polesia/Polissia/Polesye, etc. may reflect the Slavic root les 'forest', and the Slavic prefix po- 'on, in, along'.

Polishchuks
.

History

Polesia in 1613 (detail of Radziwiłł map)
Polesia in May 1920

In ancient times, the areas of today's western and west-central Polesia were inhabited by the people of the Milograd culture, the Neuri.[4]

In the late Middle Ages Polesia became part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, following it into the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569). Polesia was largely part of Poland from 1921 to 1939, when the country's largest provinces bore that name.[1] Polesia has rarely been a separate administrative unit. However, there was a

Byelorussian SSR. From 1931 to 1944, it was explicitly mentioned as constituent part of the short-lived (Byzantine Rite) Ukrainian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Volhynia, Polesia and Pidliashia.[5] Since the end of World War II
, the region of Polesie or Polesia has encompassed areas in eastern Poland, southern Belarus, northwestern Ukraine, and southwestern Russia.

Geography

Polesia is a marshy region lining the

.

Notable tributaries of the Pripyat are the

Yaselda rivers. The largest towns in the Pripyat basin are Pinsk, Stolin, Davyd-Haradok. Huge marshes were reclaimed from the 1960s to the 1980s for farmland.[clarification needed] The reclamation is believed to have harmed the environment along the course of the Pripyat.[citation needed
]

This region suffered severely from the

Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and the adjacent Polesie State Radioecological Reserve. Some other areas in the region are considered unsuitable for living as well.[6]

Tourism

The Polish part of the region includes the

Shatskiy Biosphere Reserve) on the Ukrainian side. There is also a protected area
called Pribuzhskoye-Polesie in the Belarusian part of the region.

The wooden architecture structures in the region were added to the

World Heritage Tentative List on 30 January 2004 in the Cultural category.[7]

See also

Further reading


Notes

  1. Latin
    : Tractus Polesiensis

References

  1. ^ a b "Polesie". University at Buffalo, New York. Polish Academic Information Center. Archived from the original on 7 September 2016. Retrieved 2 May 2014.
  2. ^ Alicja Breymeyer. "Presentation of West Polesie Transboundary Biosphere Reserve (Belarus/Poland/Ukraine)". Nomination Form prepared in Warsaw, Kyiv and Minsk by National UNESCO-MAB Committees, and introduced to UNESCO in a May 2007 Nomination. West Polesie.org. Archived from the original on 2 May 2016. Retrieved 2 May 2014.
  3. .
  4. ^ David Asheri, Alan B. Lloyd, Aldo Corcella, A commentary on Herodotus Books I-IV , edited by Oswyn Murray, Alfonso Moreno, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2007, p. 589
  5. ^ "Apostolic Exarchate of Volhynia, Polesia and Pidliashia (Ukrainian Rite)". GCatholic.
  6. ^ "Zoning of radioactively contaminated territory of Ukraine according to actual regulations". ICRIN. 2004. Archived from the original on 18 February 2013. Retrieved 25 April 2012.
  7. ^ "Worship wooden architecture (17th -18th centuries) in Polesye - UNESCO World Heritage Centre". Whc.unesco.org. 30 January 2004. Retrieved 13 January 2013.

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