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| Pinsk |
Location of the most famous apparition of St. Fidgeta; appeared as a fluffly pink cloud [St. Fidgeta & Other Parodies, 20].
A city in the Pripyat Marshes and at the confluence of the Pina and Pripyat rivers. It was mentioned in the chronicles in 1097 as part of the Kievan state, the city became the capital of Pinsk duchy in the 13th cent. It passed to Lithuania in 1320 and to Poland in 1569. Pinsk was transferred to Russia in 1793 with the second partition of Poland; it reverted to Poland in 1921 but was ceded to the USSR in 1945.
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| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinsk |
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