Belarus and Lithuania under Teutonic and Livonian Order

I remember Eastern Belarus was occupied by the Livnonian Order in the 13th Century, what if this continued and the Teutons were able to annex the whole of OTL Belarus and Lithuania, would the Belarusians turn to Catholicism or they would be still Orthodox.
 
I remember Eastern Belarus was occupied by the Livnonian Order in the 13th Century, what if this continued and the Teutons were able to annex the whole of OTL Belarus and Lithuania, would the Belarusians turn to Catholicism or they would be still Orthodox.


How are the Teutonic Knights/Livonian Knights going to be able to conquer that whole area?
 
I remember Eastern Belarus was occupied by the Livnonian Order in the 13th Century, what if this continued and the Teutons were able to annex the whole of OTL Belarus and Lithuania, would the Belarusians turn to Catholicism or they would be still Orthodox.

When was this, exactly?

In the second half of of 13th c. the Livonian order wasn't able to seriously defeat the Lithuanian or the Vladimir princes even once. The high watermark was occupying the republic of Pskov, followed by decades of constant beatdowns at the hands of Alexander, Dovmont, Mindaugas, Treniota, Yaroslav and Vaiselga. If either the Russians or Lithuanians could afford to keep an army in the field for longer than a few months or managed to secure some siege engines, we wouldn't even be talking about the Livonian order today as anything major.

Which incidentally brings me to my one suggestion: to keep Belarus you need to build two or three fortresses the size of Riga, and have the Tatars go all Batu v.2 on Russia to distract it in the meanwhile.
 
When was this, exactly?

In the second half of of 13th c. the Livonian order wasn't able to seriously defeat the Lithuanian or the Vladimir princes even once. The high watermark was occupying the republic of Pskov, followed by decades of constant beatdowns at the hands of Alexander, Dovmont, Mindaugas, Treniota, Yaroslav and Vaiselga. If either the Russians or Lithuanians could afford to keep an army in the field for longer than a few months or managed to secure some siege engines, we wouldn't even be talking about the Livonian order today as anything major.

Which incidentally brings me to my one suggestion: to keep Belarus you need to build two or three fortresses the size of Riga, and have the Tatars go all Batu v.2 on Russia to distract it in the meanwhile.

This happened between 1290 - 1307, on that time they occupied Polotsk(Eastern Belarus).

They needed to defend it from the Russians and the Lithuanians but the question is what would be the consequences of it.
 
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