Magdeburg law was adopted in 1498. Polotsk functioned as a capital of the Połock Voivodship of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until 1772. Captured by...

of the Lands of Old Poland provides this description of the Połock Voivodeship: “Połock, in Latin Polocia, Polocium, lies on the right bank of the Dvina...

until the 1390s. Then the principality was abolished and became part of the Połock Voivodeship.   Polotsk within Kievan Rus' c. 1100   Principality of Polotsk...

Moses Polock (May 14, 1817 – August 16, 1903) was a Jewish-American publisher and the first bookseller in the United States who dealt exclusively in rare...

partition of Poland, from parts of the voivodeships of Witebsk, Mścisław, Połock and Inflanty. Parts of these territories were also used to form the Pskov...

people, including children) 23 September – 3 October, Operation Blitz (Połock, Witebsk; 567 people, including children) 11 – 23 October, Operation Karlsbad...

The Jesuit College in Polotsk (Latin: Collegium Polocense) was a college established by the Jesuit Order in Polotsk, then part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania...

(województwo witebskie, Witebsk [Vitebsk, Belarus]) Polock Voivodship (województwo połockie, Połock [Polotsk, Belarus]) Duchy of Samogita (księstwo żmudzkie...

English colonist and converted to Christianity. Polack, Polacke, Polak, Polock Polish or Slavic people From the Polish endonym, Polak (see Name of Poland)...

Kosów county of the Stanisławów Voivodeship); Spasibiorki near railway to Połock to the east (located in the Dzisna county of the Wilno Voivodeship); and...