Belarus



=Prehistory=

=9th and 12th centuries=
 * Principality of Polatsk

=880s–1349=
 * Kievan Rus'

=1199–1349=
 * Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia

=1240s–1502=
 * Golden Horde

=12th/13th century until 1569=
 * Grand Duchy of Lithuania

=1569–1795=
 * Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

=1721–1917=
 * Russian Empire

=1918–1919=
 * Belarusian People's Republic

=1919=
 * Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia

=1919=
 * Lithuanian–Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic

=1919–1991=
 * Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic

=1991–Current=