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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 629 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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town of See also:Russia, in the See also:government of See also:Minsk, at the confluence of the Strumen and See also:Pina See also:rivers, 196 m. S.W. by See also:rail of Minsk. Pop., 27,938, two-thirds being See also:Jews. The town carries on considerable See also:trade, due to the navigable See also:river Pina, which connects it with the fertile regions in the See also:basin of the See also:Dnieper, and, by means of the Dnieper-and-See also:Bug See also:canal, with See also:Poland and See also:Prussia, while the Oginsky canal connects it with the basin of the Niemen. Pottery, See also:leather, oil, See also:soap and See also:beer are the See also:chief products of the See also:local See also: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 See also:average cost of 3s. per See also:acre. Pinsk (Pinesk) is first mentioned in 1097 as a town belonging to Sviatopolk, See also:prince of See also:Kiev. In 1132 it formed See also:part of the Minsk principality. After the Mongol invasion of 1239–42 it became the chief town of a See also:separate principality, and continued to be so until the end of the 13th See also:century. In 1320 it was annexed to Lithuania; and in 1569, after the See also:union of Lithuania with Poland, it was chief town of the See also:province of See also:Brest. During the See also:rebellion of the Cossack chief, Bogdan See also:Chmielnicki (164o), the Poles took it by See also:assault, killing 14,000 persons and burning 5000 houses. Eight years later the town was burned by the Russians.

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Charles XII. took it in 1706, and burned the town with its suburbs. Pinsk was annexed to Russia in 1795.

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