Cultural regions of Belarus

Cultural regions of Belarus are historical and ethnographic regions that are located in the boundaries of what is now Belarus and are distinguished by a set of ethnocultural features: ethnic history, nature of settlement, economic activities and tools, folk architecture, arts and crafts, traditional clothing, folklore and local dialects.[1]

Map of the cultural regions of Belarus (following Tsitou's ideas), superimposed over the administrative Regions of Belarus

According to Viktor Tsitou [be], these are the ethnographic regions of Belarus:[1]

Researchers contest the definitions of these regions. In the case of Padzvinne, the Belarusian historian Vladzimir Auseichyk [be] contests its existence as a unified region and instead writes that there are two regions in that area.[2]

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  1. ^ a b "Ганцавіцкі краязнаўча-інфармацыйны партал - Ганцевичи". www.gants-region.info. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
  2. ^ Auseichyk, Vladzimir (2019-06-28). "On the question of the ethno-cultural district of the Belorussian Padzvinne". Pskov Journal of Regional Studies (38): 36–50. doi:10.37490/S221979310012056-4. ISSN 2219-7931. S2CID 239199200.