Hasan Konopacki
Hasan Konopacki ( be, Гасан Амуратавіч Канапацкі, ''Hasan Amuratavich Kanapatski'') (1879–1953) was a Lipka Tatar politician, journalist and military officer that served in the Imperial Russian Army, Imperial Russian, Lithuanian Army, Lithuanian and Polish army, Polish armies. Hasan Konopacki was closely connected with the Belarusian national movement. He participated in the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905) as an artillery colonel and in World War I on the Russian side. He was a commander of Belarusian military units in the Lithuanian Army (1918–1919), Polish Armed Forces (Second Polish Republic), Polish Army (1919–1920) and a member of the "Belarusian Military Commission". During the Second Polish Republic (1918–1939) he worked as a politician and a journalist of the Belarusian minority in Poland, advocating the creation of a Belarusian state in close cooperation with Poland. Life Youth and Russian military service Konopacki was born on February ...
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Minsk
Minsk ( be, Мінск ; russian: Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the administrative centre of Minsk Region (voblast) and Minsk District (raion). As of January 2021, its population was 2 million, making Minsk the 11th most populous city in Europe. Minsk is one of the administrative capitals of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). First documented in 1067, Minsk became the capital of the Principality of Minsk before being annexed by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1242. It received town privileges in 1499. From 1569, it was the capital of the Minsk Voivodeship, an administrative division of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was part of a region annexed by the Russian Empire in 1793, as a consequence of the Second Partition of Poland. From 1919 to 1991, aft ...
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