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Chavusy District
Chavusy District ( be, Чавускі раён, russian: Чаусский район, Chaussky raion) is a raion (district) in Mogilev Region, Belarus; the administrative center is the town of Chavusy. As of 2009, its population was 21,242. Population of Chavusy accounts for 50.3% of the district's population. Notable residents Ivan Nasovič (1788 - 1877), author of the The First Belarusian Dictionary by Ivan Nasovič, first dictionary of the modern Belarusian language.The 230th anniversary of Ivan Nosovich". National Library of Belarus References Chavusy District, Districts of Mogilev Region {{Belarus-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raion
A raion (also spelt rayon) is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet states. The term is used for both a type of subnational entity and a division of a city. The word is from the French (meaning 'honeycomb, department'), and is commonly translated as "district" in English. A raion is a standardized administrative entity across most of the former Soviet Union and is usually a subdivision two steps below the national level, such as a subdivision of an oblast. However, in smaller USSR republics, it could be the primary level of administrative division. After the fall of the Soviet Union, some of the republics kept the ''raion'' (e.g. Azerbaijan, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan) while others dropped it (e.g. Georgia, Uzbekistan, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Armenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan). In Bulgaria, it refers to an internal administrative subdivision of a city not related to the administrative division of the country as a whole, or, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
District
A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions of municipalities, school district, or political district. By country/region Afghanistan In Afghanistan, a district (Persian ps, ولسوالۍ ) is a subdivision of a province. There are almost 400 districts in the country. Australia Electoral districts are used in state elections. Districts were also used in several states as cadastral units for land titles. Some were used as squatting districts. New South Wales had several different types of districts used in the 21st century. Austria In Austria, the word is used with different meanings in three different contexts: * Some of the tasks of the administrative branch of the national and regional governments are fulfilled by the 95 district administrative offices (). The area a dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mogilev Region
Mogilev Region or Mogilev Oblast or Mahiliow Voblasts ( be, link=no, Магілёўская вобласць; ''Mahiloŭskaja voblasć''; russian: link=no, Могилёвская область; ''Mogilyovskaya Oblast''), is a region (''oblast'') of Belarus with its administrative center at Mogilev (Mahilyow). Both Mogilev and Gomel Regions suffered severely after the Chernobyl nuclear radioactive reactor catastrophe in April 1986. Important cities within the region include Mogilev, Asipovichy and Babruysk. Geography The Mogilev Region covers a total area of , about 14% of the national total. The oblast's greatest extent from north to south is , from east to west - , while the highest point is above sea level and the lowest at above sea level. Many rivers flow through the Mogilev Region including the Dnieper (Dniapro), Berezina, Sozh, Druts, Pronya and Ptsich. The oblast' also has small lakes, the largest being the Zaozerye Lake with a surface area of . The Chigirin Res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belarus
Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Covering an area of and with a population of 9.4 million, Belarus is the List of European countries by area, 13th-largest and the List of European countries by population, 20th-most populous country in Europe. The country has a hemiboreal climate and is administratively divided into Regions of Belarus, seven regions. Minsk is the capital and List of cities and largest towns in Belarus, largest city. Until the 20th century, different states at various times controlled the lands of modern-day Belarus, including Kievan Rus', the Principality of Polotsk, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chavusy
Chaussy, Chavusy or Chausy ( be, Чавусы; pl, Czausy; russian: Чаусы; Belarusian Latin alphabet, Łacinka: Čavusy) is a town in the eastern Belarusian Region of Mogilev Region, Mogilev. Chavusy serves as an administrative center of Chavusy Raion. As of 2009, its population was 10,692. Jewish history It once was a substantial Jewish shtetl, which dated from the 17th century, as appears from a charter granted to the Jews January 11, 1667, by Michał Kazimierz Pac, castellan of Wilno, and confirmed by King Augustus III of Poland. March 9, 1739. In 1780, at the time of a visit of Catherine the Great, Catherine II, there was a Jewish population of 355, in 1,057; and the town possessed one synagogue. In 1803 the Jewish population was 453, in 1,185; in 1870 it was 2,433, in 4,167; and in 1897, 2,775, in about 6,000. Some of the Jewish artisans were employed in the tanneries and in silk and woolen factories. The Jewish population in the district of Chaussy (including the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The First Belarusian Dictionary By Ivan Nasovič
The Dictionary of the Belarusian Local Tongue (the original title in ; also translated as the Dictionary of the Belarusian Language or the Dictionary of the Belarusian Dialect) was the first dictionary of the modern Belarusian language published in 1870. It was authored by a prominent 19th century Belarusian ethnographer, (). Background The modern Belarusian language appeared on the basis of the Old Belarusian language widely spoken in the ethnic Belarusian territories in the 19th century. From the mid-1830s, ethnographers started studying the spoken language. Based on the variants spoken in the Minsk region, an ethnographer developed a Belarusian grammar using the Cyrillic alphabet in 1846. A need for a dictionary of the Belarusian language has arisen during the publication of the ''“Acts Related to the History of Western Russia, compiled and published by the Archaeographical Commission”'' (“''Акты, относящиеся к истории Западной Росс ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chavusy District
Chavusy District ( be, Чавускі раён, russian: Чаусский район, Chaussky raion) is a raion (district) in Mogilev Region, Belarus; the administrative center is the town of Chavusy. As of 2009, its population was 21,242. Population of Chavusy accounts for 50.3% of the district's population. Notable residents Ivan Nasovič (1788 - 1877), author of the The First Belarusian Dictionary by Ivan Nasovič, first dictionary of the modern Belarusian language.The 230th anniversary of Ivan Nosovich". National Library of Belarus References Chavusy District, Districts of Mogilev Region {{Belarus-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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