Belarus's origins can be traced from the…

964 CE to 1107 CE

Belarus's origins can be traced from the emergence in the late ninth century CE of Kievan Rus', the first East Slavic state.

After the death of its ruler, Prince Yaroslav the Wise, in 1054, Kievan Rus' splits into a number of principalities, each centered on a city.

One, Polatsk (Polotsk in Russian), becomes the nucleus of modern-day Belarus.

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Polotsk > Polatsk Vitsyebsk Belarus View →

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Yaroslav I View →

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Slavs, East View → Rus' people View → Polatsk, Principality of View → Rurik dynasty View → Kievan Rus', or Kiev, Great Principality of View →

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