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Pinsk

Pinsk is a city in the Brest region of southern Belarus, where the Pina joins the Pripyat, in the heart of the Pinsk Marshes. First recorded in 1097, it was a town of the Turov lands and later a Lithuanian appanage duchy. In modern times it had a large Jewish community, most of whom were murdered in the Holocaust.

Pinsk
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Principality of Turov and Pinsk

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Pinsk. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/pinsk
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