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Vorsha

Orsha District, Vitebsk Region

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Names

Belarusian
Орша; Ворша; Орша
Belarusian (Taraškievica)
Ворша; Орша
Russian
Орша
Polish
Orsza
Lithuanian
Orša; Vorša
Ukrainian
Орша; Ворша
Yiddish
אָרשע; Orsha
English
Vorsha; Orcha; Orscha; Orsha; Orshe; Orsza; Orša; Vorša
German
Orscha; Orsha; Orša; Worscha
Other spellings (GeoNames):
Горад Орша
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Old maps of this place — Russian 3-verst map, WIG 1:100,000 (1924–1939), German maps of 1914–1918 (Mapster)

Now: Orsha District, Vitebsk Region

Affiliation by years

Parish, volost, district and estate as different sources give them, one source a row. Each source speaks of its own year and they may disagree.

YearsParishVolost; districtEstateSource
1400–1777Orshansky povet, Vitebsk VoivodeshipWikidata
1777–1924Orsha Uyezd, Vitebsk GovernorateWikidata
1924–1930Vorša AkruhaWikidata
1930–1938Byelorussian Soviet Socialist RepublicWikidata
1938–2013Vitebsk RegionWikidata

Extraordinary State Commission files, 1944–1945

Files of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission on the occupiers' crimes: witness interviews, lists of the killed and of those deported to Germany (NARB fond 1569, digital copies from GARF, scans online). The 1944 district is the one with the nearest district seat, so near a district border look at the neighbouring one too.

About this place

Оршанский район (1944)

Files on the whole region — Витебская область (1)

Places of the parish (1)

Places the sources assign to the parish seated here.

Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego

Polish geographical dictionary of 1880–1902: gmina, parish, number of households, owners. The link opens the page scan.

Where it is mentioned

Fonds, inventories and files whose titles contain the place name. Several places may share a name — check the uezd and volost.

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Links

Place data from Wikidata (CC0 licence), where it can also be corrected.