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Definition of Pinsk
1. Noun. A city of southwestern Belarus.
Group relationships: Belarus, Belorussia, Byelarus, Byelorussia, Republic Of Belarus, White Russia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinsk
Literary usage of Pinsk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Raemaekers' Cartoons by Louis Raemaekers (1916)
"... much language in common differ from us more than in the policy that brought
this Prussian host to cumber the stagnant waters of the Marshes of Pinsk. ..."
2. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1916)
"CHAPTER XVI THE RUSSIAN MARCH — OFFENSIVE FROM RIGA TO Pinsk BEGINNING with March
1, 1916, active campaigning was renewed along the eastern front. ..."
3. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1916)
"... without, however, materially changing the position of either. CHAPTER XIX THE
STRUGGLE IN EAST GALICIA AND VOLHYNIA AND THE CAPTURE OF Pinsk ..."
4. History of the Campaigns of Count Alexander Suworow Rymnikski, Field-marshal by Frederic Anthing (1799)
"... About a thousand men, had formed a junction with him from Pinsk to Brzeg- cia.
As to the Baron de Fersen, no news of him arrived, ..."
5. The European War by Anthony Arnoux (1917)
"RUSSIA • CHAPTER I FROM RIGA TO Pinsk Early in March, 1916, the Russians began
a movement to relieve the pressure on the French lines around Verdun, ..."
6. Popular History of the War by Merton Merriman Wilner (1919)
"... running thence south in a nearly straight line through the Pripet marshes, a
little east of Pinsk, and on through Volhynia into Galicia. ..."
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