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SLUCZK

Volume 19 · 63 words · 1815 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 Olrog over the Tartars, in the reign of Sigismund I. It is seated on the river Slucek, 72 miles south-east of Minsk, and 70 south of Novogrodeck. E. Long. 27. 44. N. Lat. 53. 2.