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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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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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-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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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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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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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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Principality of Turov (redirect from Principality of Turaw-Pinsk)
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 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...
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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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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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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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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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(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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Riverine Flotilla of the Polish Navy (redirect from Pinsk River Fleet Order of Battle in September 1939)
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...
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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 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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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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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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Polotsk-2019 0–14 Niva Dolbizno Leskhoz Gomel 1–5 Lokomotiv Gomel Stenles Pinsk 2–3 Molodechno-2018 DYuSSh Ivatsevichi 0–6 Belshina Bobruisk Traktor Minsk...
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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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Orthodox Eparchy of Turov and Pinsk was an Orthodox ecclesiastical administrative unit based in Turov and later in Pinsk, under the jurisdiction of the...
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Russian Civil War (1918–1920) Lida Radomyshl Justingrad Skver Zviahel Pinsk Fastov Proskurov Kiev...
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surname originates from there. The earliest written mention was dedicated to Pinsk boyar Chviedzka Lienkavič Kałaur. He concluded a land-sale contract with...
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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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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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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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in Pinsk in 1937. He was ordained a priest by Kazimierz Bukraba on 13 May 1943. He became a professor of liturgy at the diocesan seminary in Pinsk in...
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