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Turaŭ is a town in the Zhytkavichy District of Gomel Region of Belarus and the former capital of the medieval Principality of Turov and Pinsk.
Gomel Region or Homyel’ Voblasc’ is one of the regions of Belarus. Its administrative center is Gomel.
The total area of the region is 40,400 square kilometres (15,600 sq mi), the population in 2011 stood at 1,435,000 with the number of inhabitants per km2 at 36.
Cyril of Turov ; 1130–1182) was a bishop and saint. He was one of the first and finest theologians of Kievan Rus'; he lived in Turov, now southern Belarus. His feast day in the Orthodox Church is on 28 April. He was added to the Roman Catholic Church calendar by Pope Paul VI in 1969.
Slutsk is a city in Belarus, located on the Sluch River 105 km (65 mi) south of Minsk. As of 2010 its population is of 61,400. Slutsk is the administrative center of Slutsk Raion.
Ryta Turava is an athlete from Belarus, competing in race walking. She was born in Vitebsk.
Rechytsa is a city in the Gomel Region of Belarus. It is center of Rechytsa District. The city is situated at the mouth of Rechytsa River, flowing into the Dnieper. As of 2005 the population was 65,532.
A modern Belarusian name of a person consists of three parts: given name, patronymic, and family name, according to the Eastern Slavic naming customs, similar to Russian names and Ukrainian names.
Ivan Melezh was a Belarusian writer of fiction and drama.
The Principality of Turov, also called Principality of Turov and Pinsk or Turovian Rus', was a medieval East Slavic principality and important subdivision of Kievan Rus' since the 10th century on the territory of modern southern Belarus and northern Ukraine. Princes of Turov often served as the Grand Princes of Rus early in 10th-11th centuries. The principality's capital was Turov and other important cities were Pinsk, Mazyr, Slutsk, Lutsk, Berestia, and Volodymyr.
Turovsky is a Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian surname, it may refer to:
Pyotr Fyodorovich Lysenko, born on 16 September 1931, in Zarechany, Polotsk district, Vitebsk Region, Belarus, a prominent Belarusian archaeologist, Doctor of History, professor.
Volchkov is a Russian surname. The origin comes from "волк", wolf. The Belarusian variant is Voltchkov.
Diocese of Minsk and Slutsk is an eparchy of the Belarusian Orthodox Church which is under the rule of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The Principality of Slutsk was originally a specific Turov Principality of land in the 12th through 14th centuries. It stood out in 1160 and took shape in the 1190s. It became a large feudal principality in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Kavalyow or Kavaliou, or Kavalyova, Kavaliova, is a common Belarusian surname, an equivalent of the English "Smith" and Russian "Kovalyov".
Ruthenian Uniate Church is a historical church that existed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth following the Union of Brest and was majorly dissolved following partition of the Commonwealth with most of the church eparchies (dioceses) being converted into the Russian Orthodoxy.
Irina Turova, née Irina Slavina, is a Russian Woman Grandmaster and International Master (IM) (2004). She is Russian Women's Chess Championship winner (2003).
