The culture there is wrong.
The region was ethnohistorically Ukrainian (Ruthenian, Little Russian) and even in XIX-XX century kept this identification, yet in game it is shown as Byelorussian for some reason.
For instance, we can look at the objective data of 1897 census in Russian Empire to see the local population there, sources taken from public data. Let's look at the map of it, 1834, in English:
1897 version differs, but mainly by the addition and extraction of other districts in governate, district border being same. I provided English map so that city locations and districts could be compared for them. Giving it to reference:
Brest (Brest-Litovsk) and Kobrin are the districts which are interesting to us as they make up most of Brest province. What's the data there?
Brest-Litovsk district data:
140561 Ukrainians out of 218432 population
Brest-Litovsk district data (without urban, rural only):
139857 Ukrainians out of 171864 population
Kobrin district data:
146789 Ukrainians out of 184453 population
Kobrin district data (without urban, rural only):
145167 Ukrainians out of 174045 population
There was no high social movement between regions or migrations, Brest area is considered as a ethnohistorical part of Volhyn (Berestia) and even nowadays it is significantly different from the rest of Belarus:
Yellow is West Polesian dialect for Belarussian and red line is a border of Area for Belarussian language at most extent, including Smolensk area.
Lastly, this is only a language line and ethnically differences ran deeper.
Thus, the change of culture in Brest from Byelorussian to Ruthenian is very justified. An argument could be made also for Pinsk and Podlasie for being Ruthenian, but in their cases they are more border zones and ethnic lines are harder to make, so it depends whether this correction is considered for Brest.
The region was ethnohistorically Ukrainian (Ruthenian, Little Russian) and even in XIX-XX century kept this identification, yet in game it is shown as Byelorussian for some reason.
For instance, we can look at the objective data of 1897 census in Russian Empire to see the local population there, sources taken from public data. Let's look at the map of it, 1834, in English:
1897 version differs, but mainly by the addition and extraction of other districts in governate, district border being same. I provided English map so that city locations and districts could be compared for them. Giving it to reference:
Brest (Brest-Litovsk) and Kobrin are the districts which are interesting to us as they make up most of Brest province. What's the data there?
Brest-Litovsk district data:
140561 Ukrainians out of 218432 population
Brest-Litovsk district data (without urban, rural only):
139857 Ukrainians out of 171864 population
Kobrin district data:
146789 Ukrainians out of 184453 population
Kobrin district data (without urban, rural only):
145167 Ukrainians out of 174045 population
There was no high social movement between regions or migrations, Brest area is considered as a ethnohistorical part of Volhyn (Berestia) and even nowadays it is significantly different from the rest of Belarus:
Yellow is West Polesian dialect for Belarussian and red line is a border of Area for Belarussian language at most extent, including Smolensk area.
Lastly, this is only a language line and ethnically differences ran deeper.
Thus, the change of culture in Brest from Byelorussian to Ruthenian is very justified. An argument could be made also for Pinsk and Podlasie for being Ruthenian, but in their cases they are more border zones and ethnic lines are harder to make, so it depends whether this correction is considered for Brest.
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