Husch, or HUSI, a town of Moldavia, near the Pruth, 38 miles SSE. from Jassy, cultivates tobacco and the vine. It was founded by fugitive Hussites in the 15th century. Here was signed in 1711 the treaty between the Russians and Turks by which Peter the Great rescued his army, surrounded by the foe. Pop. 18,500.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 15
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