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Encyclopedia Britannica



PINSK

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 629 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PIG-POL
PINSK , a town of
Russia
 , in the government of Minsk, at the confluence of the Strumen and
Pina
  rivers, 196 m. S.W. by rail of Minsk. Pop., 27,938, two-thirds being
Jews
 . The town carries on considerable
trade
 , due to the navigable river
Pina
 , which connects it with the fertile regions in the basin of the
Dnieper
 , and, by means of the
Dnieper
 -and-Bug canal, with Poland and Prussia, while the Oginsky canal connects it with the basin of the Niemen. Pottery, leather, oil, soap and beer are the
chief
  products of the local
industries
 . The draining of the marshes around Pinsk was begun by the government in 1872, and by 1897 8,000,000 acres had been drained at an
average
  cost of 3s. per acre. Pinsk (Pinesk) is first mentioned in 1097 as a town belonging to Sviatopolk, prince of Kiev. In 1132 it formed part of the Minsk principality. After the Mongol invasion of 123942 it became the
chief
  town of a
separate
  principality, and continued to be so until the end of the 13th century. In 1320 it was annexed to Lithuania; and in 1569, after the
union
  of Lithuania with Poland, it was chief town of the province of Brest. During the rebellion of the Cossack chief, Bogdan Chmielnicki (164o), the Poles took it by assault, killing 14,000 persons and burning 5000 houses. Eight years later the town was burned by the Russians. Charles XII. took it in 1706, and burned the town with its suburbs. Pinsk was annexed to
Russia
  in 1795.


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