Pultowa, a town in Southern Russia, 90 m. by rail SW. of Kharkoff, on an affluent of the Dnieper; manufactures leather and tobacco; here Peter the Great won his victory over Charles XII. of Sweden in 1709.
Population (circa 1900) given as 43,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Pulteney, William * Pultusk