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Belin

Belin was first mentioned as part of the estate of the Pinsk princess Maria Hasztold at the end of the 15th century. In 1522 there is a mention of Prince Fedor Ivanovich Yaroslavich of Pinsk to the Cathedral of St. Dmitry in Pinsk (tribute and payments to him from the “Bolince”). In 1555 it was mentioned in the letter of Queen Bona Sforza to Matej Vojtechovich, a village in the Pinsk starostvo.

General Jewish Labour Bund

BUND (General Jewish Workers Union in Lithuania, Poland and Russia) (Yiddish בונד Bund - “union”, the full name is אַלגעמיינער ייִדישער אַרבעטערסבונד אין ליטע, פּוילן און רוסלאַנד (Algemeiner Jiddischer Arbeter Bund in Lite, Poiln un Russland) was a Jewish socialist party active in Eastern Europe from the 1990s to the 1940s. The Bund considered itself the sole representative of the interests of the Jewish working class, which was quite numerous in these lands.

Kazimir Gabriel Vitejko from Braszewicz, 1639.

1639, December 1. 9. Complaint by Karol Januszewicz and wife Katerina Nevelska to the Vilna chapter about a robbery attack by Kazimir Gabriel Viteik (Vileika?), administrator of the chapter estate of Braszewicz in Brest voivodeship, on the Valavka and Kartovinka (Karlovitska) forests belonging to them, the Januszewiczes. Valavka and the cutting of construction timber. In Polish. Pp. 3001 -3 Source: Inventory of documents of the Vilna Central Archive of Ancient Act Books.