Polesie: Lowlands streching east by northeast of Lublin along the course of the Prypeć (Pripyat) River and its tributaries to the Dnieper (Dnepr) River. It is characterized by its many marshes. During the interwar period, the region formed a Polish province, currently most of the region lies in Belarus with a small western segment in Poland (wherein lies the Polesie National Park) and southern ones in the Ukraine.. A land of swamps, marshes and peat-bogs where the ground waters are just below the surface forming many shallow lakes, frequently isolating moraine landforms and stabilized dunes, many unreachable except when the marshes are frozen in winter, or by boat at high water. The largest such region in Europe. Once part of the Grand Dutchy of Lithuania, Polesie was largely part of Poland in the 1921-39 period when the country's largest provinces bore that name. An area both historically and currently economically depressed, at one time the home of highly patriotic Polish gentry surrounded by local peasantry. WWII has resulted in virtual elimination of the Polish population from areas incorporated into the then Soviet Republics of Belarus and Ukraine.

Maps
• Physical map
• Polesie as part of the 17th Century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
• Polesie as a province of Poland in the 1921-1939 period
• Polesie as a province of Poland in the 1921-1939 period - detail
Parks
• Polesie National Park
• Polesie National Park
Descriptions of Polesie
• As it was in the 1920's and 1930's
  
• As it was in the 1830's and 1840's
• Brief general description of Polesie
• Polesie
• Historical notes regarding some of Polesie's towns
  • Brześć - Polish up to 1939
  • Nowogrodek* - Polish up to 1939
  • Pińsk - Polish up to 1939
• Jewish Communities
  • Nowogrodek*
  • Pińsk
Miscellany
• The Slavic Ethnogenesis
• Fortification with Underground Passages in Polesie
• Polesskiye Zory - Belarussian Folk Dancing Ensemble