Serbs in Belarus

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Serbs in Belarus
Срби у Белорусији
Srbi u Belorusiji
Belarusian: Сербы ў Беларусі
Serbia Belarus
Flag of the Serbian minority in Belarus
Total population
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Serbs in Belarus (Belarusian: Сербы ў Беларусі; Serbian: Срби у Белорусији, romanizedSrbi u Belorusiji) are Belarusian citizens of Serbian descent or citizens of Serbia who live and work in Belarus.

History

Serbs inhabited Belarus for different reasons and in different periods of time. Among them were members of noble families, church dignitaries, propagators of all-Slavic ideas, educational reformers, as well as people who were engaged in culture and various scientific disciplines. There were also Serbian fighters in Belarus who fought in the world wars of the twentieth century. In World War I, there were several camps in Minsk, Gomel and other places where Serbian volunteers gathered. It is known that around three hundred Serbs from Bačka and Baranja fought in Belarus as part of fifty partisan units in World War II, and this is evidenced by the lists from the former Party Museum in Minsk. Today, it is estimated that around 1,000 Serbs live in Belarus. The Serbian Center is an active cultural and educational community.[2]

Notable Serbs in Belarus

  • Imperial Russian lieutenant-general and count of the Holy Roman Empire
    , Russian landowner in eastern Belarus
  • Simeon Piščević, Serbian and imperial Russian general, governor of the Mahiliou Governorate during Russian rule.
  • Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic
    in 1935–1937.
  • University of Minsk
    , compiled the history of Belarus at the time it became a Soviet republic, member of the Russian and Belarusian academies of science.
  • Belarusian SSR

See also

References

  1. ^ Bilbija, Bojan (28 December 2013). "Дијаспора може да промени Србију". politika.rs (in Serbian). Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  2. ^ "Душа Србије у Белорусији". srbizasrbe.net (in Serbian). 13 December 2009. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.