File talk:Pahonia, Žyvie Biełaruś. Пагоня, Жыве Беларусь (1918).jpg

Category:Flags of historic Voivodships of Grand Duchy of Lithuania

User:Cukrakalnis, explain the reason for deleting the Category:Flags of historic Voivodships of Grand Duchy of Lithuania. --Лобачев Владимир (talk) 16:14, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Grand Duchy of Lithuania lasted until 1795. This postcard is from 1918 about Wikipedia:Belarus. To place Category:Flags of historic Voivodships of Grand Duchy of Lithuania on this file is factually inaccurate.--Cukrakalnis (talk) 20:10, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

But the postcard depicts the flags of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. They match the colors from book Herbarz Polski Kaspra Niesieckiego S. J. Tom 1. 1839. --Лобачев Владимир (talk) 17:13, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

If it did depict the flags of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, there would also be the flag of the Duchy of Samogitia, with others not being present, like that of Podlaskie (if this postcard is depicting Category:Flags of historic Voivodships of Grand Duchy of Lithuania after the Union of Lublin in 1569, considering most of the shown flags). This postcard includes the flag of Podlaskie Voivodeship (1513–1569 part of Lithuania, and from 1569-1795 part of Poland), which was a voivodeship of the Kingdom of Poland for most of its existence. If this postcard is depicting flags of the Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania before the Union of Lublin, then there would have been other flags too (Kyiv Voivodeship, Volhynian Voivodeship and etc.). The fact that this postcard does not have them, shows that this postcard is showing flags of lands claimed by Byelorussians and not the flags of the historic Voivodeships of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania as such.--Cukrakalnis (talk) 14:27, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

These are flags of historical voivodeships, the territory of which was claimed by the Belarusian People's Republic. She did not lay claim to the Kiev Voivodeship and Samogitia. And just the territory of the flag could not be. They also did not exist in the provinces of the Russian Empire. --Лобачев Владимир (talk) 13:15, 8 December 2021 (UTC)