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Viciebsk, Vitebsk or others e

Why keep this weird name? Russian and Belarusian are both state languages in the country, so we should determine which spelling is the most frequently used. In google search, Vitebsk yields 831 000 hits, as compared to 12 400 for Vitsebsk. So, the former spelling is 67 times more popular than the latter. Let's move it to the standard English name. --Ghirlandajo 13:28, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. I totally agree. I also propose to ban Belarusian language in Belarus and in Wikipedia. And, I would like Russia to occupy and absorb Belarus. I'm surprised no one except Ghirlandajo came up with those cool ideas.

Your personal attacks have nothing to do with my proposal. If Dublin is Dublin and not Baile Átha Cliath, it doesn't mean that Irish language should be banned and Britain should absorb Belarus. Your lack of logic is quite characteristic of Polish editors here. --Ghirlandajo 14:32, 14 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Ghirlandajo, oh, why are you backing off so quickly? You've made such brilliant proposals, and now you are getting scared? Please stop for a moment and think about your own life. Your self-assigned duty of working as a watchdog of "Russophobia" and spreading Russian imperial propaganda in Belarus- and Ukraine-related articles is nothing but a virtual game. You are a grown-up, aren't you? Isn't it time to stop playing with the toys? You should go to Belarus and protect Russian language with a Kalashnikov (another brilliant Russian invention) instead of wasting time on pushing Russian POV on American web servers.

Actually, the choice is pretty much between Viciebsk and Vitebsk. "Vitsebsk" does not accurately reflect Belarusian pronounciation, and seems to imply "Віцэбск" instead of "Віцебск". The user's hostility is completely unjustified. I might also add that his (her?) only contributions so far have been the "correcting" of Belarusian names. We should go ahead with the name change. Kazak 20:48, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Viciebsk" is the proper romanisation of Belarusian "Віцебск" based on Łacinka. Anatoli (talk) 01:04, 17 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please wikify this list of people who stayed in Vitebsk

Other residents: Kazimir Malevich Nicholas II of Russia Władysław II Jagiełło Ossip Zadkine Pavel Sukhoi Hermann Hoth Vladimir Tatlin El Lissitzky Nikolai Yezhov Mikhail Bakhtin Ivan Chernyakhovsky Jeffrey Shallit Ivan Konev George Reavey Ryhor Reles Jacob Pavlovitch Adler Isser Harel Sonya Adler Nina & Lena Demetrius I Starshiy Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski Dmitri Markov Sergey Muravyov-Apostol Iosif Amusin Bella Rosenfeld Rivkin Ivan Puni David Günzburg Mikhail Nikolayevich Muravyov-Vilensky Natalia Podolskaya Solomon Zeitlin Josaphat Kuncevyc David Pinski Gustaw Herling-Grudziński Natalya Baranovskaya Vasil Bykaŭ Kazimierz Siemienowicz

Illegible

Without punctuation, I can't distinguish the names in that list (except now that I'm editing it, and the names show up in a column).

Founding myth?

for reasons unknown, the most likely being vanity.

It may well be vanity, but putting covert editorial opinion [1] into the article isn't the way to handle it. If it's the city's official founding myth - and many credible sites such as the State Medical University mention the story [2] - then it should go in (just as the Rome article mentions Romulus and Remus). Gordonofcartoon 02:23, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Name change

The administrative district named after this city has had its name changed to Witebsk Voivodeship, along with Nowogródek Voivodeship (1507-1795) and Połock Voivodeship. There is a discussion of the moves and voting at Talk:Nowogródek Voivodeship (1507-1795). Novickas 14:41, 22 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thrived at the crossroads

I'm not sure whether it was the principality or Vitebsk which "thrived at the crossroads. Unfree (talk) 21:15, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

City or shtetl

Aren't cities large by definition, and shtetls likewise small? If so, Vitebsk couldn't be both a city and a shtetl. Unfree (talk) 21:32, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]