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Sadly, the history of religions practiced in these areas include persecution, pogroms, forced conversions, exiled and imprisoned leadership and during Word War II the nightmare called the Holocaust decimated Jewish populations. | Sadly, the history of religions practiced in these areas include persecution, pogroms, forced conversions, exiled and imprisoned leadership and during Word War II the nightmare called the Holocaust decimated Jewish populations. | ||
[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Religie_w_I_Rz-plitej_1750.svg/754px-Religie_w_I_Rz-plitej_1750.svg.png Map of religions in Belarus 1750] | |||
[http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/fishstein/images/11_06%20Pale%20of%20Settlement.jpg Map of Legal Jewish Settlement in Russia 1825] | |||
==== Religions ==== | ==== Religions ==== | ||
===== Jewish ===== | ===== Jewish ===== | ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_of_Settlement The Pale of Settlement] | |||
===== Roman Catholic ===== | ===== Roman Catholic ===== | ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholicism_in_Belarus History of Roman Catholic Church in Belarus] | |||
[http://www.catholic.by/2/belarus/church-bel-history.html Roman Catholic Church in Belarus] History and portal to Catholic.by (today's Catholic Church in Belarus) | |||
===== Greek Catholic ===== | ===== Greek Catholic ===== | ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusian_Greek_Catholic_Church History of the Greek Catholic Church in Belarus] | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusian_Greek_Catholic_Church History of the Greek Catholic Church in Belarus] | ||