1 Varangians (varahi), East Slavonic term for Vikings, the Nordic pirates of the second half of the ninth and the 10th centuries who traveled from Scandinavia to Byzantium… 2 Vasilevič Ryhor (1955- ), lawyer and justice. He is a graduate of the Belarusian State University. After 1978, he worked at various legal jobs in Miensk and continued… 3 Viadroša, Battle of (1500), took place during the war (1500-1503) between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL) and Muscovy on the Viadroša River. A four- to five-thousand-strong… 4 Viciebsk (also Vitebsk), one of six main administrative cities of Belarus, with a population of 359,000 (1995), and capital of the Viciebsk Province (vobłaść).… 5 Vieča, town or land assembly, common to other East Slavic lands. It was a general forum of nobility and freemen at which basic issues of taxation, justice,… 6 Vilnia (also Vilnius, Vilna, Wilno), second capital, after Navahradak, of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Ruś, and Samogitia (GDL) and since 1940 capital of the… 7 Vilnius, see Vilnia. 8 Vitaŭt (also Vytautas, Witold; 1350-1430), Duke of Troki and Horadnia, after 1392 Grand Duke of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL), outstanding statesman, and… 9 Vitebsk, see Viciebsk. 10 Vojšałk (1223-1268), Duke of Navahradak (1254, 1258-1263), Grand Duke of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (1263-1267), and son of Mindoŭh. Christened in the Orthodox… 11 Vorskła, Battle of (1399), one of the major battles connected with the eastward expansion of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL) under Grand Duke Vitaŭt. The battle took… 12 Vseslav Brachislavich, see Usiasłaŭ Bračysłavič.