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Brest Litovsk

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[brest li-tawfsk, bryest lyi-tawfsk] / ˈbrɛst lɪˈtɔfsk, ˈbryɛst lyɪˈtɔfsk /

noun

  1. former name (until 1921) of Brest.


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He was born in Brest Litovsk in 1901, the son of a penniless old-clothes dealer named Harry Zonnenberg, who emigrated to New York, scrimped and saved, and brought his family over in 1910.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the 1918 Treaty of Brest Litovsk, the Germans' price for making peace with the shaky new Bolshevik regime included stripping away Russia's western holdings: Finland, Poland and the Baltic states all regained their independence.

From Time Magazine Archive

"If he spoke Polish, we could speak in Polish," chuckled Begin, who would have had an unfair advantage, having been born in the Polish city of Brest Litovsk.

From Time Magazine Archive

The reason generally advanced as a basis for this suspicion is that Ukraine concluded a separate peace with Germany in February, 1918, at Brest Litovsk.

From Memorandum to the Government of the United States on the Recognition of the Ukrainian People's Republic by Batchinsky, Julian

Finally, Kamenev, now President of the Moscow Soviet, spoke, objecting to Bucharin's comparison of the peace now sought with that of Brest Litovsk.

From Russia in 1919 by Ransome, Arthur