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Belarus has four World Heritage Sites, two of them shared between Belarus and its neighbors. The four are: the Mir Castle Complex; the Niasvizh Castle; the Belovezhskaya Pushcha (shared with Poland); and the Struve Geodetic Arc (shared with Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Moldova, Russia, Sweden and Ukraine).
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Although the name Belarus most likely means "white Rus", it is a very old term, and there's still no exact version of its origin. ("Rus," historically, refers to the southwestern Slavic territory, but east of Poland, primarily Ukraine, and having nothing whatsoever to do with today's "Russia.") Some historians believe that "white" in old Slavic languages meant "free," pointing to the fact that Belarus was never invaded by the Tatars or under their control, unlike the other principalities later in the 13th - 15th centuries.
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For centuries the area that is now Belarus was divided between Russia and Poland. Because it lay on a major east-west invasion route, it suffered great destruction at various times, including during World War II.
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