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===== 1300s - 1400s ===== | ===== 1300s - 1400s ===== | ||
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* Grand Duchy of Lithuania expands eastward and southward, incorporating area known as Belarus today. | * Grand Duchy of Lithuania expands eastward and southward, incorporating area known as Belarus today. | ||
* Grand Duchy of Lithuania were Orthodox | * Grand Duchy of Lithuania were Orthodox | ||
+ | * Grand Duchy of Lithuania becomes a large state. Court life is on a grand scale((See: [[sources: | ||
+ | * Jews provided loans to rulers | ||
+ | * To repay the loans, the Jewish lenders were allowed to collect income on behalf of the treasure. | ||
+ | * Success in collecting such income required agility, mobility and entrepreneurship((See: | ||
+ | * Jewish migration to east (e.g. from Lithuania to Belarus). Jewish merchants involved in east-west trade. | ||
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+ | ===== 1500s ===== | ||
- | jewish migration, east-west from Lithuania to belarus. | ||
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===== 1600s ===== | ===== 1600s ===== | ||
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+ | * 1654-1667: Muscovite-Polish War. By 1665, almost all Belarus captured by Muscovite and Cossack forces. | ||
+ | * Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth begins to retake Belarus in early 1660s. | ||
+ | * Christians and Jews begin to return to region | ||
+ | * Jewish prisoners taken from Belarus remained in Russia | ||
+ | * Belorus population losses from war amount to 53 percent | ||
+ | * 1667: Truce of Andrusovo between Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Muscovites/ | ||
+ | * Polonization of Grand Duchy of Lithuania from transfer of towns and estates to Polish nobility after previous owners killed in war | ||
===== 1700s ===== | ===== 1700s ===== | ||
Galicia: tax exemptions to people who settle on uncultivated land(??? | Galicia: tax exemptions to people who settle on uncultivated land(??? |
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