Henryk Sienkiewicz
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Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz, also known by the pseudonym Litwos, was a Polish epic writer. He is remembered for his historical novels, such as the Trilogy series and especially for his int
Sienkiewicz, c. 1885
Monument atop Sienkiewicz Mound at Okrzeja. At left is the writer's family's village, Wola Okrzejska, where he was born.
Sienkiewicz in safari outfit, 1890s
Sienkiewicz with children, Oblęgorek, c. 1902
Lipka Tatars
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The Lipka Tatars are a Turkic ethnic group and minority in Belarus, Lithuania and Poland who originally settled in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the beginning of the 14th century.
Belarusian Tatars
Tatar dance
Lithuanian Tatars in the Napoleonic Army.
Page from the Dastan-ı Miraç (British Library, London), a miscellany of religious works written in a Slavic language using the Arabic script, probably copied in the late 18th–early 19th century in western Belarus. Although Lipka Tatars are a Turkic people, they have been using Belarusian, Lithuanian, and Polish as their means of daily communication for centuries. The Slavic translation is written in modified Arabic characters with special letters to indicate sounds that do not exist in Arabic or Turkic.