Baltarusija?
Browsing through the Lithuanian wikipedia, I stumbled upon an article on Belarus.
So, in Lithuanian its name is Baltarusija. Which, I guess, has more to deal with Baltics than with 'white'. But the country is landlocked. And balta means breach in Latvian (and I guess, it would mean pretty much the same in LT).
Perhaps, they call the land that way because they used it as a foothold in wars against Moscovia. Mind you there used to be Greater Lithuania and Greater Poland, both used to have parts of each other's territory and that of Belorussia, too...
So, in Lithuanian its name is Baltarusija. Which, I guess, has more to deal with Baltics than with 'white'. But the country is landlocked. And balta means breach in Latvian (and I guess, it would mean pretty much the same in LT).
Perhaps, they call the land that way because they used it as a foothold in wars against Moscovia. Mind you there used to be Greater Lithuania and Greater Poland, both used to have parts of each other's territory and that of Belorussia, too...