ISSUE 160 - April 5, 2024 - Stamp News Online Magazine
Landlocked Countries
Belarus
By Geir Sør-Reime
Belarus (or White elarusa) lies between Russia, Ukraine, Poland,
Lithuania and Latvia and has an area of 80,200 square miles and a population of 9.2 million.
The capital is Minsk which during the 9th Century was ruled by the Rurik dynasty of Kyiv, but became a separate principality ruled by Rurik princes from AD 1054. Early 14th Century it was incorporarated with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. In Ad 1386, Lithuania and Poland were united when the rulers married each other, and in 1569 the Lithuanian-Polish Commonweath was formed. It was dissolved 1795 as a concequence of . . .
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