Western Belarus

E86281

historical region

Western Belarus is the historical region of Belarus that was incorporated into the Second Polish Republic after World War I and later annexed by the Soviet Union during World War II.

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	historical region →
annexationConfirmedBy	1945 Polish–Soviet border agreement →
annexationDuring	World War II →
borders	Eastern Belarus → Latvia → Lithuania → Poland → Ukraine →
capitalLikeCity	Grodno →
containsPart	Brest Region → Grodno Region → parts of Minsk Region → parts of Vitebsk Region →
country	Belarus →
currentState	Republic of Belarus →
historicalEthnicGroup	Belarusians → Jews → Lithuanians → Poles →
historicalEvent	Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact → Soviet invasion of Poland →
historicalPeriod	World War II → interwar period →
incorporationAfter	World War I →
language	Belarusian → Polish → Russian → Yiddish →
locatedIn	Eastern Europe →
majorCity	Baranavichy → Brest → Lida → Navahrudak → Pinsk →
partOf	Belarus →
postwarState	Byelorussian SSR →
prewarState	Second Polish Republic →
religion	Eastern Orthodoxy → Judaism → Roman Catholicism →
timeInPolandEnd	1939 →
timeInPolandStart	1919 →
timeInUSSRStart	1939 →
wasAnnexedBy	Soviet Union →
wasDividedBy	Curzon Line →
wasIncorporatedInto	Poland → Second Polish Republic →
wasPartOf	Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic → Poland → USSR →

Referenced by (3)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Treaty of Riga →	definedStatusOf
Brest-Litovsk →	locatedIn
Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland →	location