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    Pinsk (Belarusian: Пінск; Russian: Пинск, IPA: [pʲinsk]; Polish: Pińsk; Ukrainian: Пінськ; Yiddish: פינסק) is a city in Brest Region, Belarus. It serves...
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    The Pinsk Marshes (Belarusian: Пінскія балоты, romanized: Pinskiya baloty), also known as the Pripet Marshes (Belarusian: Прыпяцкія балоты, romanized: Prypiackija...
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  • of Belarus Pinsk Raion, an administrative subdivision of Belarus Roman Catholic Diocese of Pinsk, a diocese at Pinsk Pinsk Marshes Pinsk Flotilla, see...
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  • Pinsk-Karlin is a Hasidic group that is an offshoot of Karlin-Stolin. A distinguished group of the elders of Karlin did not accept the leadership of the...
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    Pinsk Region (Pinsk Voblasts, Belarusian: Пінская вобласць, Russian: Пинская Область) was a territorial unit in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic...
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    Pinsk District (Belarusian: Пінскі раён, romanized: Pinski rajon; Russian: Пинский район, romanized: Pinsky rayon) is a district (raion) of Brest Region...
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    The Principality of Turov, later called the Principality of Turov and Pinsk (Belarusian: Турава-Пінскае княства, romanized: Turava-Pinskaje kniastva;...
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    The Pińsk Ghetto (Polish: Getto w Pińsku; Belarusian: Пінскае гета) was a Nazi ghetto created by Nazi Germany for the confinement of Jews living in the...
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  • Ognisko Pińsk was a Polish football team, located in Pińsk, Poland (now Belarus), on the historic territory of Kresy Wschodnie (Polish Eastern Borderlands)...
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    Johannes Pinsk (4 February 1891 in Szczecin – 21 May 1957 in Berlin-Dahlem) was a German Catholic theologian and professor. Pinsk studied theology in Breslau...
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    The Pinsk massacre was the mass execution of thirty-five Jewish residents of Pinsk on April 5, 1919, by the Polish Army. The Polish commander "sought to...
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  • FC Volna Pinsk is a Belarusian football club based in Pinsk, Brest Oblast. The club plays in the Belarusian First League. The club was established in 1987...
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    swampy areas of central Polesia are known as the Pinsk Marshes (after the major local city of Pinsk). Large parts of the region were contaminated after...
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  • Aaron of Pinsk, also Aharon Kretinger, was a rabbi in Kretinga, in the Kovno Governorate, and afterward in Pinsk, where he died in 1841. He wrote Tosafot...
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    The 1943 Pinsk Prison raid was one of the most spectacular raids in the history of the Home Army and the Polish Underground State. It took place on 18...
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  • township in Ivanava Raion of Brest Region located about 30 kilometres west of Pinsk on the Yaselda River in Belarus. Founded as a royal city of the Polish-Lithuanian...
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    Brest Region 350,616 7 Babruysk Mogilev Region 216,793 8 Baranavichy Brest Region 179,000 9 Barysaw Minsk Region 142,681 10 Pinsk Brest Region 137,960...
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    The Diocese of Pinsk (Latin: Pinsken(sis) Latinorum, Belarusian: Пінская) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese in Belarus. It is a suffragan...
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    seminary in Pinsk, Świątek was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest in 1939, and then was sent to the parish of Pruzhany. The Soviet Union occupied Pinsk after...
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    the Jews of Pinsk (4 July 1941 – 23 December 1942)". The Book of Pinsk. Chapter 3: The Oppressors in Action. The Jewish Community of Pinsk. Archived from...
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    from Brest-Litovsk and Pinsk counties. It was created from southern part of Trakai Voivodeship in 1566. In 1791 Kobryn and Pinsk-Zarzeche (Its center was...
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    Russian Civil War (1918–1920) Lida Radomyshl Justingrad Skver Zviahel Pinsk Fastov Proskurov Kiev...
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    stationed in 1655, and also Pinsk, (both now in Belarus). On 16 May 1657, during the Khmelnytsky Uprising, he was captured in Pinsk, and then killed in the...
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    Russian Civil War (1918–1920) Lida Radomyshl Justingrad Skver Zviahel Pinsk Fastov Proskurov Kiev...
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    (Belarusian: Каралін; Russian: Карлин; Yiddish: קארלין) is a village outside Pinsk, Belarus. It was founded as an independent town in 1690 and was named after...
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    Пи́на) is a river in Ivanava and Pinsk Raions in Belarus. The 40 kilometers long river flows into the city of Pinsk and is a left tributary of the Pripyat...
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    Sea and the Black Sea. The total length of the canal system from Brest to Pinsk is 196 km (122 mi), including the 105 km (65 mi) long artificial waterway...
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  • Novarodok, where his father was the communal rabbi, but moved to the city of Pinsk after his marriage to the daughter of Rabbi Elazar Moshe Horowitz, and lived...
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    pogroms (1941)) Łódź Lubartów Lublin Międzyrzec Podlaski Mizocz Nowy Sącz Pińsk Radom Siedlce Sambor Słonim Sosnowiec Stanisławów Tarnopol Wilno Warsaw...
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    territory to the west, with the Baranavichy, Belastok (Białystok), Brest, Pinsk, and Vileyka oblasts. In 1944, Belastok was eliminated and the new oblasts...
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