Pjetrykav

Pietrykau, is a metropolis in Gomel Region, Belarus. It is the executive seat of Pietrykau District. At the 2009 census, its populace was 10,591. Before 1500, the records of Pietrykaŭ is that of the Principality of Turov and Pinsk. Thus it exceeded below manage of the Kingdom of Galicia Volhynia in the early thirteenth century, and become devastated in 1240 by the Mongols, and thereafter remained under the titular manipulate of the Golden Horde until it joined the Grand Duchy of Lithuania inside the early 14th century, just earlier than Poland conquered the Kingdom of Galicia Volhynia in 1349.

In 1502 and 1521 the area become attacked through Tatars from the newly independent Crimean Khanate. The names by way of which it's been recognised include Petrikov, Petrikovi, Petrikovo, Petrykau, Petrykaw, Pietrykau, Pjetrykav, Pyetrykav and Pyetrykaw. Pietrykau is placed on the left financial institution of the Pripyat River, 89 kilometres west of Mazyr and a hundred ninety kilometres west of the town of Gomel, the nearby capital.