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    Vitebsk (redirect from Witebsk)
    Vitebsk or Vitsyebsk (Belarusian: Віцебск, romanized: Viciebsk, IPA: [ˈvʲitsʲepsk]; Russian: Витебск, IPA: [ˈvʲitʲɪpsk]; Yiddish: וויטעבסק) is a city in...
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    of the Lands of Old Poland provides this description of the Witebsk Voivodeship: “Witebsk (in Latin Vitebscum), located on the Dvina river, was one of...
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    October, Operation Blitz (Połock, Witebsk; 567 people, including children) 11 – 23 October, Operation Karlsbad (Orsza, Witebsk; 1,051 people, including children)...
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    Smoleńsk [Smolensk, Russia]) Vitebsk Voivodship (województwo witebskie, Witebsk [Vitebsk, Belarus]) Polock Voivodship (województwo połockie, Połock [Polotsk...
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    aftermath of the First partition of Poland, from parts of the voivodeships of Witebsk, Mścisław, Połock and Inflanty. Parts of these territories were also used...
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    included the bishop of Inflanty, the voivode of Ruthenia and the voivode of Witebsk). When no help was forthcoming and the armies of the combined nations occupied...
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    Greif (August 14–20, 1942) — anti-partisan operation in Belarus: Orsza, Witebsk Sumpffieber (August 22 – September 21, 1942) — anti-partisan operation...
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    Ducatus on a 1596 map by Mercator Coat of arms of Lithuania's Połock and Witebsk Voivodships Prince of Polotsk Principality of Slutsk Linda Gordon (1983):...
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    of Lithuania. In April and May, it had spread to Dinaburg, Latvia and Witebsk, Belarus, to the Kiev Governorate, northern Ukraine, and to the Wolynian...
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  • Johanna (Kenna) († 1368), daughter of Olgierd of Lithuania and Mary of Witebsk (II) Margareta († 1409), daughter of Siemowit III of Masovia and Eufemia...
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