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Minsk, is the capital and largest city of Belarus, on the Svislach and the Nyamiha Rivers. As the national capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the administrative centre of Minsk Region (voblast) and Minsk raion (district). In 2013, it had a population of 2,002,600. Minsk is the administrative capital of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and seat of the Executive Secretary. 

The earliest historical references to Minsk date to the 11th century (1067), when it was noted as a provincial city within the Principality of Polotsk. The settlement developed on the rivers. In 1242, Minsk became part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It received town privileges in 1499. 

From 1569, it was a capital of the Minsk Voivodeship, in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was part of a region annexed by the Russian Empire in 1793, as a consequence of the Second Partition of Poland. From 1919 to 1991, after the Russian Revolution, Minsk was the capital of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic in the Soviet Union. Minsk will host the 2019 European Games. 

Minsk is located on the southeastern slope of the Minsk Hills, a region of rolling hills running from the southwest (upper reaches of the river Nioman) to the northeast – that is, to Lukomskaye Lake in northwestern Belarus. The average altitude above sea level is . The physical geography of Minsk was shaped over the two most recent ice ages. The Svislach River, which flows across the city from the northwest to the southeast, is in the "urstromtal", an ancient river valley formed by water flowing from melting ice sheets at the end of the last Ice Age. There are six smaller rivers within the city limits, all part of the Black Sea basin.

1. What is the largest city in Belarus?
2. When was it first heard of?
3. What century?
4. On what did they begin to settle?
5. What was it connected to in 1793?
6. As a result of what?
7. What was it a capital of until 1991?
8. Since when?
9. Where is it located?
10. Does it have land above sea level?
11. What divides the city from southeast to northwest?
12. How many are in the city?
13. What basin do they share in common?
14. What is it the admin capital of?

Numbered answers:
1. Minsk
2. 1067
3. 11th
4. on the rivers
5. the Russian Empire
6. the Second Partition of Poland.
7. the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
8. 1919
9. on the southeastern slope of the Minsk Hills
10. Yes
11. The Svislach River
12. Seven
13. the Black Sea basin.
14. Minsk Region