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Pinsk

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Pinsk  (pnsk)
A city of southwest Belarus south-southwest of Minsk. First mentioned in chronicles in 1097, it was the capital of the Pinsk duchy in the 13th century. Pinsk passed to Lithuania in 1320, to Poland in 1569, to Russia in 1793, back to Poland in 1921, and to the USSR in 1945. Population: 130,000.
Pinsk (Russian) [pinsk]
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(Placename) a city in SW Belarus: capital of a principality (13th-14th centuries). Pop.: 132 000 (1998 est.)
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Noun1.Pinsk - a city of southwestern BelarusPinsk - a city of southwestern Belarus      
Belarus, Belorussia, Byelarus, Byelorussia, Republic of Belarus, White Russia - a landlocked republic in eastern Europe; formerly a European soviet
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