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Belarusian Gothic
Architectural style of 15th- and 16th-century Eastern Europe / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Belarusian Gothic[lower-alpha 1] or Ruthenian Gothic[1] is the architectural style of ecclesiastical buildings and fortified structures of the 15th and 16th centuries in modern Belarus, Lithuania, eastern Poland and western Ukraine.[2]
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Although these buildings have features typical of Gothic architecture such as lofty towers, flying buttresses, pointed arches and vaulted ceilings, they also contain elements not typically considered Gothic by Central and Western European standards.