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.
Islam in Belarus
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A continuous presence of Islam in Belarus began in the 14th century. From this time it was primarily associated with the Lipka Tatars, many of whom settled in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth while
Mosque in Navahrudak.
S. V. Ivanov. Trade negotiations in the country of Eastern Slavs. Pictures of Russian history. (1909)
Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas the Great.
Ivan Paskevič