etymology of Belarus

[Robert De Lossa]

>
>This should, and presumably at some time has, tempted Slavists.  Was
>Novgorod Velikiy further away than a smaller version of Novgorod, from the
>perspective of someone important? Should Ukrainians be proud to have been
>called "Little Russians" because this meant they were closer to the heart
>of Rus', while the "Great Russians" were therefore peripheral?
>
>Tom Priestly

Omeljan Pritsak and John Reshetar, Jr. deal with this explicitly in
"Ukraine and the Dialectics of Nation-Building," Slavic Review 22(2) 1963:
24-28. According to their argument, the point of reference is Byzantine and
has to do with the two Rus metropolitanates that came to exist after 1303.
They also mention the practice of metropolis (mikros) vs. colony (megas)
that Robert Orr mentions.

Rob De Lossa

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