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White Russia

American  

noun

  1. Byelorussia.


White Russia British  

noun

  1. another name for Belarus

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Its fall would imperil the strongholds of White Russia �Orsha, Mogilev, Zhlobin, Polotsk � perhaps lead to retreat beyond the prewar Polish border.

From Time Magazine Archive

Twenty-one German generals had been captured in the disastrous Battle of White Russia, which they bitterly described as "a game of chance."

From Time Magazine Archive

This cry is rising from all parts of Russia; from the Volga district, from Siberia, from White Russia, from Central Asia and from the Ukraine black dirt country.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Red High Command struck on a 150-mile front in White Russia, against the Wehrmacht's easternmost bulge.

From Time Magazine Archive

The White-Russian is the dialect spoken in Lithuania and a portion of White Russia, especially Volhynia.

From Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations by Robinson, Therese Albertine Louise von Jacob

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