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    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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    Nazi Germany for the confinement of Jews living in the city of Pińsk, Western Belarus. Pińsk, located in eastern Poland, was occupied by the Red Army in...
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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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  • Pinsk massacre in Pinsk in April 1919 Ognisko Pińsk, a former Polish football team located at Pinsk FC Volna Pinsk, a football team located at Pinsk Pinsk...
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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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    Poles from concealment. An interim civilian administration was set up in Pińsk, but the hostilities continued. There were instances of Polish soldiers...
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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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    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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    (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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    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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    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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    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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    Voivodeship, and Polesie, together with Pińsk. During his reign, the three regions of Polesie - those of Brześć, Pińsk and Turów were united. After the Union...
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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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    Auxiliary Bishop of Pińsk appointed in 1933, six years before the Nazi German and Soviet invasion of Poland. He was expelled from Pińsk (now Pinsk, Belarus) by...
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    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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  • 1932 it was separated as a semi-independent branch of the navy based in Pińsk. In 1939 the commander of the Riverine Flotilla was Cmdr. Witold Zajączkowski...
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    Russian Civil War (1918–1920) Lida Radomyshl Justingrad Skver Zviahel Pinsk Fastov Proskurov Kiev...
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    The Principality of Turov, later called the Principality of Turov and Pinsk (Belarusian: Турава-Пінскае княства, romanized: Turava-Pinskaje kniastva;...
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    Reichskommissariat Ostland took place in two days of 5–7 August in occupied Pińsk, where over 12,000 Jews were murdered by the Waffen SS, not the Einsatzgruppen...
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    national census and around 55,000 in mid-1939. Other urban centers included Pińsk (population 31,900 in 1931), Dawidgródek (population 11,500), Kobryń (population...
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    Holocaust trains from Nazi ghettos, including from the Brześć Ghetto and the Pińsk Ghetto, and from the ghettos in the surrounding area, as well as from Reichskommissariat...
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    Russian Civil War (1918–1920) Lida Radomyshl Justingrad Skver Zviahel Pinsk Fastov Proskurov Kiev...
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  • River Fleet (Flota Rzeczna) built in 1920 (Stocznia Gdańska), displacement 110/126,5t since 1920 – 105 mm Cannons (2xI), 5 MG since 1920s – 100 mm howitzer...
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    pogroms (1941)) Łódź Lubartów Lublin Międzyrzec Podlaski Mizocz Nowy Sącz Pińsk Radom Siedlce Sambor Słonim Sosnowiec Stanisławów Tarnopol Wilno Warsaw...
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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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    Minsk and Zaslawye Maladzyechna Mogilev and Mstsislaw Novogrudok and Lida Pinsk and Luninets Polotsk and Hlybokaye Slutsk Turaw and Mazyr Vitebsk and Orsha...
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    original home is thought by some scholars to have been the wooded areas of the Pinsk Marshes, one of the largest wetlands in Europe. The East Slavs gradually...
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