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The name Polesia is from a Slavic root and loosely translates as " Woodland ". ''Polesie'' is the Polish spelling; , ''Paleśsie''; , ''Polissja''; , ''Poles’e''; Latin : ''Polesia''. An inhabitant of Polesia is called '' Palašuk '' in Belarusian, ''Polishchuk'' in the local Ukrainian dialect, ''Poleszuk'' in Polish, ''Poleshchuk'' in Russian. GEOGRAPHY Polesia is a marshy region lining the Pripyat River in Southern Belarus ( Brest , Pinsk , Kalinkavichy , Homel ), Northern Ukraine (in the Volyn , Rivne , Zhytomyr , Kiev , and Chernihiv Oblast s), and partly in Poland ( Lublin ) and Russia ( Bryansk ). It is a Flatland within the Watershed s of the Western Bug and Prypyat rivers. The two rivers are connected by the Dnieper-Bug Canal , built during the reign of Stanisław August Poniatowski , the last king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth . Notable tributaries of the Pripyat are the Horyn ( Goryn ), Stokhod ( Stokhod , Stokhid ), Styr , Ptyč , Jasielda ( Jasolda ) rivers. The largest towns in the Pripyat basin are Pinsk , Stolin , Davyd-Haradok . Huge marshes were reclaimed from the 1960s to '80s for Farm land. The reclamation is believed to have harmed the environment along the course of the Pripyat. This region suffered severely from the Chernobyl Accident . Huge areas were polluted by Radioactive elements and are considered unsuitable for living. |
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