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SLUCZK

Volume 17 · 63 words · 1797 Edition

a large and populous town in Poland, in Lithuania, and capital of a duchy of the same name; famous for three battles gained here by Constantine duke of Ostrog over the Tartars, in the reign of Sigismund I. It is seated on the river Slucz, 72 miles south-east of Minici, and 70 south of Novogrodeck. E. Long. 27. 44. N. Lat. 53. 2.