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{{Infobox ethnic group
| group        = Belarusians<br/>беларусы<br/>''belarusy''<br/>Byelorussians
| pop = '''{{circa}} 9.5–10 million'''
| popplace = '''{{flagcountry|Belarus}}{{nbsp|2}}7.95 million'''<ref name='2009census'>{{cite web|url=http://www.belstat.gov.by/en/perepis-naseleniya/perepis-naseleniya-2009-goda/main-demographic-and-social-characteristics-of-population-of-the-republic-of-belarus/changes-in-the-populations-of-the-majority-ethnic-groups/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160728160107/http://www.belstat.gov.by/en/perepis-naseleniya/perepis-naseleniya-2009-goda/main-demographic-and-social-characteristics-of-population-of-the-republic-of-belarus/changes-in-the-populations-of-the-majority-ethnic-groups/|archive-date=28 July 2016 |title=Changes in the populations of the majority ethnic groups |website=belstat.gov.by|accessdate=2016-07-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Demographic situation in 2015|url=http://belstat.gov.by/en/ofitsialnaya-statistika/otrasli-statistiki/naselenie/demografiya_2/current-data/demographic-situation/demographic-situation-in-2015/|publisher=Belarus Statistical Office|date=27 January 2016|accessdate=27 January 2016|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203093043/http://belstat.gov.by/en/ofitsialnaya-statistika/otrasli-statistiki/naselenie/demografiya_2/current-data/demographic-situation/demographic-situation-in-2015/|archivedate=3 February 2016}}</ref> 
| region1  = {{flag|United States}}<br>{{small|(Belarusian ancestry)}}
| pop1     = 600,000<ref>{{cite book |title=Belarus at the Crossroads |isbn=978-0-87-003172-4|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=[[Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]] |year=1999|author=Garnett, Sherman W.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.everyculture.com/multi/A-Br/Belarusan|work=World Culture Encyclopedia|title=Belarusan americans|first=Vituat|last=Kipel|accessdate=July 28, 2016}}</ref>–768,000<ref>{{cite web|url=https://joshuaproject.net/countries/US|title=Country: United States: Belarusians|work=Joshua Project|date=2016|accessdate=23 May 2016}}</ref>
| region2  = {{flagcountry|Russia}}
| pop2     = 521,443 {{small|(2010)}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/rus_etn_10.php|title=All-Russian population census 2010 population by nationality, sex and subjects of the Russian Federation|accessdate=July 28, 2016|work=Demoscope Weekly|language=Russian}}</ref>
| region3  = {{flagcountry|Ukraine}}
| pop3     = 275,763 {{small|(2001)}}<ref name="Національний склад населення">[http://2001.ukrcensus.gov.ua/results/general/nationality/ Про кількість та склад населення України за підсумками Всеукраїнського перепису населення 2001 року] {{ref-uk}}</ref>
| region4  = {{flagcountry|Latvia}}
| pop4     = 68,174 {{small|(2011)}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.csb.gov.lv/en/notikumi/key-provisional-results-population-and-housing-census-2011-33306.html|title=On key provisional results of Population and Housing Census 2011|publisher=|accessdate=18 March 2015}}</ref>
| region5  = {{flagcountry|Kazakhstan}}
| pop5     = 66,476 {{small|(2010)}}<ref name="KazakhstanCensus2009">{{cite web|format=PDF |title=Перепись населения Республики Казахстан 2009 года. Краткие итоги. (Census for the Republic of Kazakhstan 2009. Short Summary) |url=http://www.stat.kz/p_perepis/Documents/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%8C%20%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81.pdf |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/5uvOtyVTC?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stat.kz%2Fp_perepis%2FDocuments%2F%25D0%259F%25D0%25B5%25D1%2580%25D0%25B5%25D0%25BF%25D0%25B8%25D1%2581%25D1%258C%2520%25D1%2580%25D1%2583%25D1%2581.pdf |archivedate=12 December 2010 |publisher=Republic of Kazakhstan Statistical Agency |accessdate=10 December 2010 |language=Russian |deadurl=yes |df= }}</ref>
| region6  = {{flagcountry|Poland}}
| pop6     = 47,000 {{small|(2011)}}<ref name="stat">''[http://www.stat.gov.pl/cps/rde/xbcr/gus/Przynaleznosc_narodowo-etniczna_w_2011_NSP.pdf Przynależność narodowo-etniczna ludności – wyniki spisu ludności i mieszkań 2011]''. GUS. Materiał na konferencję prasową w dniu 29. 01. 2013. p. 3. {{Retrieved|accessdate=2013-03-06}}</ref>
| region7  = {{flagcountry|Lithuania}}
| pop7     = 41,100<ref>[http://db1.stat.gov.lt/statbank/selectvarval/saveselections.asp?MainTable=M3010215&PLanguage=0&TableStyle=&Buttons=&PXSId=3236&IQY=&TC=&ST=ST&rvar0=&rvar1=&rvar2=&rvar3=&rvar4=&rvar5=&rvar6=&rvar7=&rvar8=&rvar9=&rvar10=&rvar11=&rvar12=&rvar13=&rvar14=]</ref>
| region8 = {{flagcountry|Moldova}}
| pop8    = 20,000<ref name=belarustime/>
| region10  = {{flagcountry|Canada}}
| pop10     = 15,565<ref name="Statistics Canada">{{cite web|title=Ethnic Origin (264), Single and Multiple Ethnic Origin Responses (3), Generation Status (4), Age Groups (10) and Sex (3) for the Population in Private Households of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2011 National Household Survey|url=http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/dp-pd/dt-td/Rp-eng.cfm?LANG=E&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=0&GID=0&GK=0&GRP=0&PID=105396&PRID=0&PTYPE=105277&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=0&Temporal=2013&THEME=95&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=}}</ref>
| region11 = {{flagcountry|Estonia}}
| pop11    = 12,171 {{small|(2016)}}<ref>[http://www.stat.ee/34267 2016 census]. Eesti Statistikaamet.</ref>
| region12 = {{flagcountry|Italy}}
| pop12    = 8,529<ref name=belarustime/>
| region13 = {{flagcountry|France}}
| pop13    = 7,500<ref name=belarustime/>
| region14 = {{flagcountry|United Kingdom}}
| pop14    = 7,000<ref name=belarustime/>
| region15 = {{flagcountry|Argentina}}
| pop15    = 7,000<ref name=belarustime>{{cite web |work=Belarus Time |language=Belarusian |title=Как живешь, белорусская диаспора? |url=http://www.belarustime.ru/belarus/culture/diaspore/c6420f28d9870602.html|date=March 13, 2012}}</ref>
| region16 = {{flagcountry|Brazil}}
| pop16    = 7,000<ref name=belarustime/>
| region17 = {{flagcountry|Czech Republic}}
| pop17   = 4,642-6,000<ref name="Statistics Czech Republic">{{cite web|url=https://www.czso.cz/documents/11292/27914491/1312_c01t14.pdf/17c97f0e-03e1-4a81-84e0-02695b9a637b?version=1.0}} </ref>
| region18 = {{flagcountry|Sweden}}
| pop18    = 2,833<ref name="Statistics Sweden">{{cite web|format=XLS|title=Utrikes födda efter födelseland och invandringsår|trans-title=Foreign-born by country of birth and year of immigration|language=sv|url=http://www.scb.se/sv_/Hitta-statistik/Statistik-efter-amne/Befolkning/Befolkningens-sammansattning/Befolkningsstatistik/25788/25795/Helarsstatistik---Riket/385479/|work=Statistics Sweden|date=31 December 2015|accessdate=23 October 2016}}</ref>
| region19 = {{flagcountry|Belgium}}
| pop19    = 2,000<ref name=belarustime/>
| region20 = {{flagcountry|Australia}}
| pop20    = 1,560 {{small|(2006)}}<ref name="ABS Ancestry">{{cite web|url=http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/ABSNavigation/prenav/ViewData?breadcrumb=POLTD&method=Place%20of%20Usual%20Residence&subaction=-1&issue=2006&producttype=Census%20Tables&documentproductno=0&textversion=false&documenttype=Details&collection=Census&javascript=true&topic=Ancestry&action=404&productlabel=Ancestry%20(full%20classification%20list)%20by%20Sex&order=1&period=2006&tabname=Details&areacode=0&navmapdisplayed=true& |title=20680-Ancestry (full classification list) by Sex - Australia |format=Microsoft Excel download |publisher=[[Australian Bureau of Statistics]] |work=2006 Census |accessdate=2008-06-02 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080310121707/http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/ABSNavigation/download?format=xls&collection=Census&period=2006&productlabel=Ancestry%20(full%20classification%20list)%20by%20Sex&producttype=Census%20Tables&method=Place%20of%20Usual%20Residence&areacode=0 |archivedate=March 10, 2008}}</ref>
| region21 = {{flagcountry|Greece}}
| pop21    = 1,168<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.statistics.gr/portal/page/portal/ESYE/BUCKET/A1605/Other/A1605_SPO15_TB_AN_00_2006_07_F_EN.pdf|title=Error|publisher=|accessdate=18 March 2015}}</ref>

|work=Statistics Portugal|language=Portuguese |accessdate=July 28, 2016|date=January 1, 2011}}</ref>
| langs    = [[Belarusian language|Belarusian]]<br/>[[Russian language|Russian]]
| rels     = [[Belarusian Orthodox Church|Orthodox Christianity]] (majority), [[Roman Catholicism in Belarus|Roman Catholicism]] (minority)
| related  = Other [[East Slavs]]
}}

'''Belarusians''' ({{lang-be|беларусы}}, ''bielarusy''; {{lang-ru|белорусы}}), or '''Byelorussians''' (towards to [[Byelorussian SSR]]), are an [[East Slavs|East Slavic]] [[ethnic group]] who are native to modern-day [[Belarus]] and the immediate region. There are over 9.5 million people who proclaim Belarusian ethnicity worldwide, with overwhelming majority residing either in Belarus or the adjacent countries where they are an autochthonous minority.

==Location==
{{See also|Belarusian diaspora}}
[[File:Historical borders of Belarusians.png|thumb|300px|left|
Ethnic territory of Belarusians<br />
{{Legend|#F0C500|According to [[Yefim Karskiy|Y. Karskiy]] (1903)}}
{{Legend|#F00000|According to [[Mitrofan Dovnar-Zapol'skiy|M. Dovnar-Zapol'skiy]] (1919)}}
{{Legend|#000000|Modern state boundaries}}
]]

Belarusians are an [[East Slavs|East Slavic]] [[ethnic group]] who populate the majority of the [[Belarus]]. Belarusian minority populations live in countries neighboring Belarus: in Ukraine, in Poland (especially in the [[Podlaskie Voivodeship]]), in the Russian Federation and in Lithuania. At the beginning of the 20th century Belarusians constituted a minority in the regions around the city of [[Smolensk]] in Russia.

Significant numbers of Belarusians emigrated to the United States, Brazil and Canada in the early 20th century. During Soviet times (1917–1991), many Belarusians were [[Population transfer in the Soviet Union|deported or migrated]] to various regions of the USSR, including [[Siberia]], Kazakhstan and Ukraine.

Since the breakup of the [[USSR]] in 1991 several hundred thousand have emigrated to the [[Baltic states]], the United States, Canada, Russia, and [[European Union|EU countries]].

==Languages==
The two official languages in Belarus are [[Belarusian language|Belarusian]] and Russian. Russian is the most spoken language, principally by 72% of the population, while Belarusian is only used by 11.9%<ref name="belta.by">{{cite web|url=http://www.belta.by/ru/news/society?id=422619|title=Общество|publisher=|accessdate=18 March 2015}}</ref> in everyday life. According to a study, in varying degrees, the vast majority of residents speak the Belarusian language: 29.4% are fluent, being able read and write it, 52.5% can speak and read the language, 8.3% can understand it but can't speak or read it, while a further 7% are able to understand the parts of Belarusian language that are similar to Russian.<ref name="belta.by"/>  Belarusian is a language of the [[East Slavic languages|East Slavic group]].

The name ''Belarus'' can be literally translated as ''[[White Ruthenia]]'' that is a historical region in the east of modern Republic of Belarus, known in Latin as ''Ruthenia Alba'' ({{lang-en|White Rus}}). This name was in use in the West for some time in history, together with ''White Ruthenes'', ''[[White Russia]]ns'' (though not to be confused with the political group of [[White Army|White Russians]] that opposed the [[Bolshevik]]s during the [[Russian Civil War]]) and similar forms. Belarusians trace their name back to the people of [[Rus' people|Rus']].

The term Belarusians was promoted mostly during the 19th century by the [[Russian Empire]]. For instance, this can be traced by editions of folklorist researches by [[Ivan Sakharov]], where in the edition of 1836 Belarusian customs are described as ''Litvin'', while in the edition of 1886 the words Литва (''Lithuania'') and Литовцо-руссы (''Lithuanian-Russians/Ruthenians'') are replaced by respectively Белоруссия (''Byelorussia'') and белоруссы (''Byelorussians'').<ref>Сказанія русскаго народа, собранныя Иваномъ Петровичемъ Сахаровымъ, 1836, 1886</ref><ref>Бандарчык В. К. Фарміраванне і развіццё беларускай нацыі / В. К. Бандарчык, П. У Церашковіч // Этнаграфія беларусаў.— Мінск : Навука і тэхніка, 1985.— С. 158.</ref><ref>Беларусы : у 10 т. / Рэдкал.: В. К. Бандарчык [і інш.]. — Мінск : Беларус. навука, 1994–2007. — Т. 4 : Вытокі і этнічнае развіццё... С. 62—63, 88.</ref>

[[File:Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1619) compared with today's borders (ENG).png|thumb|left|310px|[[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth|Commonwealth of Polish Kingdom and Grand Duchy of Lithuania]] in the 17th century<br /><u>'''Legend:'''</u>
{{legend|#ffaec9|The Crown (Kingdom of Poland)}}
{{legend|#ffc90e|Duchy of Prussia - Polish fief}}
{{legend|#dab9f4|Grand Duchy of Lithuania}}
{{legend|#bccacb|Livonia}}
{{legend|#efe4b0|Duchy of Courland, a joint fief}}]]

==History==
[[File:Baltic Tribes c 1200.svg|thumb|right|Baltic population in the 12th century]]
The Belarusian people trace their distinct culture to the [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania]], earlier [[Kievan Rus]] and the [[Principality of Polatsk]]. Most Belarusians are descendants of the East Slav tribes [[Dregovichs]], [[Krivichs]] and [[Radimich]]s, as well as of a [[Balts|Baltic tribe]] of [[Jotvingians]] who lived in the west and north-west of today's Belarus.<ref>http://www.krugosvet.ru/enc/istoriya/BELORUSI.html Энциклопедия Кругосвет</ref>

Belarusians began to emerge as a people during the thirteenth through fourteenth centuries in the [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania]]. Mostly on the lands of the upper basins of [[Neman River]], [[Dnieper River]] and the [[Daugava River|Western Dvina River]].<ref>Беларусы : у 10 т. / Рэдкал.: В. К. Бандарчык [і інш.]. — Мінск : Беларус. навука, 1994–2007. — Т. 4 : Вытокі і этнічнае развіццё... С. 36, 49.</ref>

In 13th–18th centuries Belarusians were mostly known under the names of ''[[Litvins]]/[[Lithuanians]]'' and ''[[Ruthenians]]'' which refers to the Eastern part of state of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (''Litva'', ''Vialikaja Litva'') of which the [[White Ruthenia]]n, [[Black Ruthenia]]n and [[Polesia]]n lands were part of since the 13th–14th centuries, and where the [[Ruthenian language]] developed and gradually became the dominant written language in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, replacing [[Latin Language|Latin]]. [[Casimir's Code]] of 1468 and all three editions of [[Statutes of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania]] (1529, 1566, and 1588) were written in the Ruthenian (also referred to as ''Old Belarusian'') language. From the 1630s it was replaced by [[Polish language|Polish]], as a result of [[Poles|Polish]] high culture acquiring increasing prestige in the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]].

On the grounds of the dominance of Ruthenian language (which later evolved into contemporary Belarusian and [[Ukrainian Language]]s) and culture in the Eastern parts of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, some "modern" Belarusian scholars and people in Belarus consider the [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania]] to be a ''Belarusian'' state when it existed.<ref>{{cite web |first=Cheryl |last=Renshaw |url=http://depts.washington.edu/baltic/papers/grandduchy.htm|title=The Grand Duchy of Lithuania 1253-1795|publisher=University of Washington, Baltic Studies|date=5 June 2002|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119001619/http://depts.washington.edu/baltic/papers/grandduchy.htm|archivedate=19 January 2012}}</ref><ref>Ivan Saverchanka "portrays the Grand Duchy of Lithuania as a strong Belarusian state in the center of Europe". Zejmis, Jakub, "Belarusian National Historiography and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania as a Belarusian State," Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung , 1999, 48, pp. 392–383.</ref><ref>Elena Gapova. "The Nation in Between". ''Over the Wall/After the Fall: Post-Communist Cultures Through an East-West Gaze''. [[Indiana University Press]]. 2004. p. 65.</ref>

Between 1791 and 1917 much of Belarus, with its Christian and Jewish populations, was acquired by the [[Russian Empire]] in a series of military conquests and diplomatic manoeuvres, and was made part of a region known as the [[Pale of Settlement]].

After World War I Belarusians revived their own statehood, with varying degrees of independence – first as the short-lived [[Belarusian National Republic]] under German occupation, then as the [[Byelorussian SSR]] from 1919 until 1991, which merged with other republics to become a constituent member of the [[Soviet Union]] in 1922). Belarus gained full independence with the [[History of the Soviet Union (1982-91)|dissolution of the Soviet Union]] in 1991.

==Cuisine==
{{main article|Belarusian cuisine}}
Belarusian cuisine shares the same roots with cuisines of other Eastern and Northern European countries, basing predominantly on meat and various vegetables typical for the region.

==See also==
* [[List of Belarusians (ethnic group)]]
* [[Demographics of Belarus]]
* [[Dregovichs]]
* [[Krivichs]]
* [[Litvins]]
* [[Radimichs]]
* [[History of Belarus]]

==Notes==
{{Reflist|2}}

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