Motal

Motal stands on the Yaselda River west of Pinsk, in the low, watery country of Polesia. Queen Bona Sforza founded it as a royal town in 1554, and it formed part of the Pinsk royal estate. Under the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth it belonged to the district of Pinsk in Brest Litovsk Voivodeship; after the partitions of Poland it passed into the Russian Empire.