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Pripet Marshes

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[prip-it mahr-shuhz, -et] / ˈprɪp ɪt ˈmɑr ʃəz, -ɛt /

plural noun

  1. an extensive wooded marshland in southern Belarus and northwest Ukraine. 33,500 sq. mi. (86,765 sq. km).


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The Red command, it said, was massing troops from the Black Sea to the Pripet Marshes for a new all-out push, coordinated with the Allied invasion of the west.

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His father was a small timber merchant in the muddy village of Motol in the Pripet Marshes.

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A cloud of dust hid the battlefield north of the Pripet Marshes.

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Even the Russian mosquitoes from the endless Pripet Marshes conspired in guerrilla activity.

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From Lake Narotch down to the Pripet Marshes German and Russian guns again raked the trenches facing them.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)