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Informat.io on Minsk (4599 words) |
 | From 1569, it was a capital of the Minsk Voivodship in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. |
| Minsk is located on the southeastern slope of the Minsk Hills, a region of rolling hills running from the southwest (upper reaches of the river Nioman) to the northeast - that is, to the Lukomskae lake in northwestern Belarus. |
| Minsk was annexed by Russia in 1793 as a consequence of the Second Partition of Poland. |
| Minsk at AllExperts (4535 words) |
| Minsk is located on the southeastern slope of Minsk Hills - a country of rolling hills running from the southwest (upper reaches of river Nioman) to the northeast - to the Lukomskae lake in northwestern Belarus. |
| Minsk was initially founded on the hills, however in the 20th century it grew to relatively flat plains in the southeast. |
| Under the terms of the Peace of Riga, Minsk was handed to the Russian SFSR and became the capital of the Byelorussian SSR, one of the constituent republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. |
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