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 ===== 1600s =====
+  * 1654-1667: Muscovite-Polish War. By 1665, almost all Belarus captured by Muscovite and Cossack forces.  Robbed and murdered Jews.  Forced Jews to convert to Orthdoxy. Muscovite government demanded the annihilation or conversion to Orthodoxy of Catholics and Jews in the lands they seized.
+    * 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/Cossacks.  Christians and Jews bagan gradual return to Rechitsa.
+    * Polonization of Grand Duchy of Lithuania from transfer of towns and estates to Polish nobility after previous owners killed in war
 ===== 1700s =====
 Galicia: tax exemptions to people who settle on uncultivated land(???).  same law forbids rabbis from wedding those without permanent earnings.