Pisek, a walled town of Bohemia, stands on an affluent of the Moldau, 84 miles by rail S. by W. of Prague, and has iron and brass works, and manufactures of paper, boots, hats, &c. Pop. 10,596.
Pisek
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 199
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