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by Ivan Sache, 18 September 1999
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This flag is listed under number 101 at the chart "Flags
of Aspirant Peoples" [asp]
as : " Ak-Rusya Tatar (Tatars) - Belorussia." -
Horizontal white-red-white with white crescent and star in red
stripe, shifted to the hoist.
Ivan Sache, 16 September 1999
"Ak" means "white" in tatar -- so
"Akrusa^" is a literal translation of "Belorossia^
/ Belarush" ("White Russia"). My soviet atlas
doe'snt list any Tatar minority in Belarus
Antonio Martins, 16 September 1999
My soviet mini-atlas shows a Russian minority and areas in
northwestern Belarus of mixed Belarussian/Polish population.
Anyway, the minority situation in the Soviet Union was extremely
complex, and these atlases tend to only list the larger
minorities (or at least the "politically correct"
larger minorities). Therefore it is not to exclude the existence
of Tatars in Belarus...
Jorge Candeias, 24 September 1999
Confirmed: in Fischer Weltalmanach 1999 - in 'Weissrussland'
(Belarus) there is a minority of 'Tataren' - Tatars.
Jarig Bakker, 24 September 1999
According to Basau and Kurkou [bku94],
this is flag of Belarusian Association of Tatars-Muslims "Al
Ketab" (Belaruska Zhurtavannya Tatarau-Musulman "Al
Ketab"). Association was created in 1990 and flag was
probably adopted in the same time.
Tatars of former Grand Duchy of Lithuania