seriously, lol were the poles in italy?
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seriously, lol were the poles in italy?
And one more question: why do you believe that between Belarusians and Lithuanians there are Poles?
It's not a belief. It's a fact. Check other modern maps.
Belarus has a significant Polish Minority:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...share_2009.png
Lithuania has a significant Polish Minority:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Barry_Kent.png
I wrote about Belarusian Poles in the first post of the thread "On Belarusian identity", you didn't read it attentively enough. Applying your own logic we must not take into account the identity of the Belarusian Poles, and if we don't, then we will see that between them and Catholic Belarusians there are no difference whatsoever.
And what about the Sorbs again, did you include them in Poles or in Czechoslovaks?
Well, at the end of XIX / beginning of XX century the Catholic Belarusians contributed to what we call "National Rebirth" not less (if not more) than Orthodox Belarusians.
I know what you are going to say now, that all this "National Rebirth" is a Polish intrigue against Russians, amirite? :rolleyes:
Where are Lusatian Sorbs again?
White Russians, like all Russians, were originally Orthodox, then following Union of Brest (1596), Russians living under Polish rule (White & Little Russians) became Uniate Catholics. After the tsar dissolved the Uniate Catholic church in 19th century, most former Uniates joined ranks with Orthodox Church, while a minority of White Russians (who had friendly relations with Poles, unlike Little Russians) joined ranks with Roman Catholic Church. So it seems I was wrong, Russian Roman Catholics (a true oddity), do exist today, but:
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus...atholic_ChurchQuote:
According to the historian Anatol Taras, by 1795, around 80% of Christians in Belarus were Greek Catholics, with 14% being Roman Catholics and 8% being Orthodox[1].
14% was the approximate size of Polish and Lithuanian minorities, so there were practically no Russian Roman Catholic (1-2% at most, all nobility).
They are not present on the map because they are mostly Germanized.Quote:
Where are Lusatian Sorbs again?