Lyubashany

Lyubashany is a rural settlement in the wooded country east of the Berezina River. Its name appears as Luboshany in a record of 1496, when the land belonged to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. In the sixteenth century the estate figured in transactions over noble property, including a pledge recorded in 1560. Such records offer a glimpse of the local landed society that governed the villages and fields scattered across this part of White Ruthenia.