Pyetrykaw
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Pietrykaŭ Петрыкаў |
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Administration building
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 Pietrykaŭ
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| Coordinates: 52°08′N 28°30′E / 52.133°N 28.500°E | |
| Country |
 Belarus
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| Voblast | Gomel Region |
| District (Raion) | Pietrykaŭ District |
| Population (2009) | |
| • Total | 10,591 |
| Time zone | EET (UTC+2) |
| • Summer (DST) | EEST (UTC+3) |
Pietrykaŭ (Belarusian: Петрыкаў, Russian: Петриков, Polish: Petrików), is a town in Gomel Region, Belarus. It is the administrative seat of Pietrykaŭ District. At the 2009 census, its population was 10,591.
Pietrykaŭ is located on the left (north) bank of the Pripyat River, 89 kilometres (55 mi) west of Mazyr and 190 kilometres (118 mi) west of the city of Gomel, the regional capital.
The names by which it has been known include Petrikov, Petrikovi, Petrikovo, Petrykau, Petrykaw, Pietrykaŭ, Pjetrykav, Pyetrykav and Pyetrykaw.
Before 1500, the history of Pietrykaŭ is that of the Principality of Turov and Pinsk. Thus it passed under control of the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia in the early 13th century, and was devastated in 1240 by the Mongols, and thereafter remained under the titular control of the Golden Horde until it joined the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the early 14th century, just before Poland conquered the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia in 1349. In 1502 and 1521 the area was attacked by Tatars from the newly independent Crimean Khanate.
The first written mention of Pietrykaŭ goes back to the year 1523, where the community was under the Olelkovich family's Duchy of Slutsk–Kapyl, part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The town became part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1569, and so remained until its annexation by the Russian Empire at the second partition of Poland in 1793. Pietrykaŭ was administratively placed in the Mazyr District (Mozyr uezd) of Minsk Governorate. By the 19th century, it had come under the control of the Chodkiewicz noble Russian family.
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