Why are Belarusians called "White Russians"?

because russians aren't

The name Belarus is closely related with the term Belaya Rus', i.e., White Rus'. There are several claims to the origin of the name White Rus'.[25] An ethno-religious theory suggests that the name used to describe the part of old Ruthenian lands within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania that had been populated mostly by early Christianized Slavs, as opposed to Black Ruthenia, which was predominantly inhabited by pagan Balts.[26]

An alternate explanation for the name comments on the white clothing worn by the local Slavic population.[25][27] A third theory suggests that the old Rus' lands that were not conquered by the Tatars (i.e., Polotsk, Vitebsk and Mogilev) had been referred to as "White Rus'".[25]

Because REAL Russians are BLACK BVLLS

I do not know. It probably means nothing. For example "White Huns"

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Russian propaganda
It's "White Ruthenia"

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Russia & Ruthenia come from the same linguistic word originally fellow VPNanon

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White Ruthenia was a thing before Rossija formally existed.
Also my great grandfather was Belarusian.

Who cares. belorussians, ukrainians, poles, all those small tribes, they are just irrelevant insects.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruthenia

The very first line of this page:
Old East Slavic: Pѹ́cь (Rus')

It used to be the same thing plumberanon

Russians can have west-slavic roots too.

Russian western dialects are similiar to belarussian eastern.

Also my opinion than mentally modern Russians are more european.

I never said they don't come from the same word. I don't see your reasoning for why they suddenly equal to each other.

Ja mysle że dzisiaj Rosjanie mentalnie sa bliżej do Białorusinów, ale to jest moja opinia.

Also Ruś =/= Rosja or equivalent as it's in slavic languages.

>A third theory suggests that the old Rus' lands that were not conquered by the Tatars (i.e., Polotsk, Vitebsk and Mogilev) had been referred to as "White Rus'".[25]

The lands untouched by the Tatars remained wh*te, it all makes sense now because Tatars are BLACK. QARÄ BOĞÄ.

Niektórzy Białorusini bliżej polskiej granicy jeszcze do dziś uważają się za Litwinów.

Litwinów w sensie narodowosci czy w sensie politycznym?

Moja opinia że identycznosc Białorusi to cos post-litwińskie.

*w sensu

I przepraszam za brak liter diakrytycznych.

>Why are Belorusians called White Russians
They arent

Jako narodowość. Za czasów pierwszej Rzeczypospolitej to obecnych Białorusinów nazywano Litwinami, bardziej niż obecnych Litwinów.
Tylko nie mów tego obecnym Litwinom bo się obrażą.

Za późno kurwa mać!

>Ruś =/= Rosja
t.Mykola Jewbiedenko

Unironically something like that.

No Armenians are their own category, notice how the text is in bold like the other category names.

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Because Belarus means White Rus'.
Btw it's only eastern part of modern Belarus, western is Black Rus'. Galicia was also used to be called Red Rus'.
Same way with Ukraine, it's was only the name for the specific region - border with the Wild Fields. Podolia, Galicia, Volyn and other regions were never Ukraine and people called themselves Ruthenians(Rusyns) up until the beginning of 20th century. Some people in the Carpathian mountains still call themselves like that.
Both Ukrainian and Belarusian identities/nationalities are fake and manufactured. Belarusian and Little Russian were made up by Imperial Russia, but Little Russian died out. Ukrainian was made up by Poles and then further propagated by Austrians and soviets. In a violent way btw, Austrians literally set up concentration camps for Ukrainization. And soviets were also relentless in forcing it. For example, when Carpathian Rus' was annexed by USSR after WW2, all people who refused to accept Ukrainian identity instead of Ruthenian were sent to Siberia.
Both nationalities in reality are Ruthenian people, who have roots in medieval state known today as Kievan Rus'.

Because Ukrainian never made up the majority of Crimea.

This meme that Austrians are Germans needs to stop

This, Austrians are Germanised slavs.

How come Polish anons don't notice that Ruthenians occupy all of Austrian Galicia all the way to the Silesian border on that map?

Russia and Ruthenia are both Latin names for Rus' and Russia is older actually
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kievan_Rus'
>During its existence, Kievan Rus' was known as the "land of the Rus'" (Old East Slavic: Pѹ́cьcкaѧ зeмлѧ, from the ethnonym Pѹ́cь; Greek: Ῥῶς; Arabic: الروس al-Rūs), in Greek as Ῥωσία, in Old French as Russie, Rossie, in Latin as Russia (with local German spelling variants Ruscia and Ruzzia), and from the 12th century also Ruthenia

And in the past it was used to call Russia and Russians too. Only recently Ruthenia is used specifically to differentiate Western Rus' from Eastern
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruthenians
>Baron Herberstein, describing the land of Russia, inhabited by the Rutheni who call themselves Russi, claimed that the first of the governors who rule Russia is the Grand Duke of Moscow, the second is the Grand Duke of Lithuania and the third is the King of Poland. Encyclopedia of Ukraine claims that the word Rutheni did not include the modern Russians, who were known as Moscovitae. However, according to modern research studies is to come to conclusion that even after the 16th century the word Rutheni was associated with all East Slavs. Vasili III of Russia, who ruled the Grand Duchy of Moscow in the 16th century, was known in European Latin sources as Rhuteni Imperator. Jacques Margeret in his book "Estat de l'empire de Russie, et grande duché de Moscovie" of 1607 explained, that the name "Muscovites" for the population of Tsardom (Empire) of Russia is an error. During conversations they called themselves rusaki (which is a colloquial term for Russians) and only the citizens of the capital called themself "Muscovites"

. Margeret considered that this error is worse than calling all the French "Parisians." Professor David Frick from the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute has also found in Vilnius the documents from 1655, which demonstrate that Moscovitae were also known in Lithuania as Rutheni

So suck balls, dumn pshek. You are the only one spreading propaganda.

Based Malorossian

Thanks for informative posts бpaтiш, I too thought that “Ruthenian” referred to Belorussians and thought Rusyns were a different group

Alright, i don't dare speak for the Easterners as I'm not one, but we westerners definitely aren't

Why are scandinavians grouped with dutch on that map?

>Also Ruś =/= Rosja
Fucking idiot. Rosiya is a just the Greek name for Rus'... Russians adopted it, because of larping as last defenders of Orhodoxy and successors of Byzantium.
And they didn't call themselves "Muscovites" as ethnicity. That's Ukrainian and Polish propaganda. Rusyn, Russak, Russkiy were used in Medieval times. Not only it is saved in Russian texts of that time, but also in works of Western travelers and historians. Yes, fragmented states were called Novgorod Republic, Grand Duchy of Moscow, Tver etc. But just like there were Halych-Volhynia principality, Ducky of Kiev, Pinsk, Minsk and so on. When Moscow princes started to consolidate territories, they used the term "of All Rus'" long before adopting the name Rosiya.

Why do you even try?

The real question is why are there "Ruthenians" and/or "Rusyn" minorities all over Eastern Europe now that are supposed to be distinct from Ukrainians when these term used to name much larger populations?
100 years ago Romanians called all Ukrainians "Ruthenian", now I read there are Ruthenian minorities in Romania, Serbia, Hungary that aren't Ukranian.

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