https://kapuscinski.info/en/tags/geography/Recent content in Geography on kapuscinski.infoHugoen-USWed, 13 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/biography/a-report-from-pinsk/Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/biography/a-report-from-pinsk/<p><em>Author: Robert Nowacki. Date of publication: 2002-01-01</em></p> <p><strong>&ldquo;He was not raised on butter…&rdquo;</strong> <img src="https://kapuscinski.info/en/biography/images/pinsk_2002.jpg" alt="" loading="lazy"> </p> <p>&ldquo;The ancient history of Pińsk is shrouded in the dense veil of a distant past. Who founded the stronghold of Pińsk and when — no one knows. Whether Herodotus, father of history, giving his description of the mysterious northern land full of forests and swamps, knew anything of this economic junction where the products of the land of rivers and marshes were exchanged for the manufactured goods of Ionian cities; whether a Roman legionary from Dacia and the merchant who followed him reached this land, whence the magnificent pine (pinus) could serve the masters of the world in building victorious triremes, and the stronghold could be adorned with the name &lsquo;Pinscum&rsquo; — it is hard to say.&rdquo;</p>