• Thumbnail for Pinsk
    Pinsk (Belarusian: Пінск; Russian: Пинск, IPA: [pʲinsk]; Polish: Pińsk; Ukrainian: Пінськ; Yiddish: פינסק) is a city in Brest Region, Belarus. It serves...
    23 KB (2,028 words) - 22:42, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pinsk Marshes
    The Pinsk Marshes (Belarusian: Пінскія балоты, romanized: Pinskiya baloty), also known as the Pripet Marshes (Belarusian: Прыпяцкія балоты, romanized: Prypiackija...
    11 KB (998 words) - 13:47, 28 May 2024
  • of Belarus Pinsk Raion, an administrative subdivision of Belarus Roman Catholic Diocese of Pinsk, a diocese at Pinsk Pinsk Marshes Pinsk Flotilla, see...
    730 bytes (132 words) - 21:02, 11 February 2019
  • Thumbnail for Pinsk Region
    Pinsk Region (Pinsk Voblasts, Belarusian: Пінская вобласць, Russian: Пинская Область) was a territorial unit in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic...
    1 KB (118 words) - 03:01, 7 August 2023
  • Ognisko Pińsk was a Polish football team, located in Pińsk, Poland (now Belarus), on the historic territory of Kresy Wschodnie (Polish Eastern Borderlands)...
    1 KB (102 words) - 21:42, 26 July 2022
  • 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...
    2 KB (257 words) - 15:33, 19 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Pinsk massacre
    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...
    22 KB (2,337 words) - 17:10, 20 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pińsk Ghetto
    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...
    14 KB (1,484 words) - 03:44, 23 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Principality of Turov
    The Principality of Turov, later called the Principality of Turov and Pinsk (Belarusian: Турава-Пінскае княства, romanized: Turava-Pinskaje kniastva;...
    11 KB (1,235 words) - 06:30, 21 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Johannes Pinsk
    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...
    1 KB (108 words) - 13:44, 12 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Tatiana Woollaston
    Tatiana Woollaston (category Sportspeople from Pinsk)
    Belarusian: Таццяна Тарчыла, romanized: Tatstsiana Tarchyla, 8 November 1986 in Pinsk, Soviet Union) is a professional snooker referee. She is an official referee...
    6 KB (435 words) - 16:37, 1 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Polesia
    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...
    18 KB (1,333 words) - 07:59, 24 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Pinsk
    The Battle of Pinsk was an engagement of the Polish–Soviet War that took place from 23 February 1919 to 5 March 1919. It was fought between the Second...
    13 KB (1,262 words) - 00:46, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pinsk District
    Pinsk District (Belarusian: Пінскі раён, romanized: Pinski rajon; Russian: Пинский район, romanized: Pinsky rayon) is a district (raion) of Brest Region...
    7 KB (231 words) - 15:43, 11 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1943 Pinsk Prison raid
    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...
    8 KB (1,019 words) - 00:54, 25 September 2024
  • 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...
    12 KB (148 words) - 08:05, 25 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Belarusian Orthodox Eparchy of Turov and Pinsk
    Orthodox Eparchy of Turov and Pinsk was an Orthodox ecclesiastical administrative unit based in Turov and later in Pinsk, under the jurisdiction of the...
    53 KB (6,744 words) - 17:31, 24 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Karlin (Pinsk)
    (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...
    2 KB (212 words) - 15:51, 7 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Riverine Flotilla of the Polish Navy
    better known as the Pinsk Flotilla, was the inland branch of the Polish Navy operating on the Vistula river and in the area of the Pinsk Marshes (Dnieper–Bug...
    4 KB (470 words) - 11:56, 8 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Roman Catholic Diocese of Pinsk
    The Diocese of Pinsk (Latin: Pinsken(sis) Latinorum, Belarusian: Пінская) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese in Belarus. It is a suffragan...
    6 KB (475 words) - 19:45, 20 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Belarus
    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...
    180 KB (16,289 words) - 08:21, 23 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kazimierz Świątek
    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...
    8 KB (582 words) - 18:47, 21 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Church of St. Charles Borromeo, Pinsk
    Polish: Kościół św. Karola Boromeusza) is a former Roman Catholic church in Pinsk, Belarus. Constructed between 1770 and 1782, it was consecrated in the name...
    6 KB (466 words) - 16:28, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Brest Litovsk Voivodeship
    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...
    6 KB (524 words) - 01:15, 25 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Final Solution
    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...
    93 KB (10,008 words) - 03:27, 18 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pina (river)
    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...
    1 KB (108 words) - 18:15, 20 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for The Holocaust
    Russian Civil War (1918–1920) Lida Radomyshl Justingrad Skver Zviahel Pinsk Fastov Proskurov Kiev...
    124 KB (14,793 words) - 07:14, 19 September 2024
  • west of Pinsk on the Yaselda River. Founded as a royal city of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1554 by Queen Bona Sforza. A part of the Pinsk ‘ekonomia’...
    5 KB (420 words) - 20:05, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Regions of Belarus
    territory to the west, with the Baranavichy, Belastok (Białystok), Brest, Pinsk, and Vileyka oblasts. In 1944, Belastok was eliminated and the new oblasts...
    9 KB (493 words) - 01:51, 17 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel
    Russian Civil War (1918–1920) Lida Radomyshl Justingrad Skver Zviahel Pinsk Fastov Proskurov Kiev...
    323 KB (26,041 words) - 08:08, 26 September 2024