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Carpatho-Ukraine

American  
[kahr-pay-thoh-yoo-krayn] / kɑrˈpeɪ θoʊ juˈkreɪn /

noun

  1. a region in W Ukraine: ceded by Czechoslovakia in 1945.


Carpatho-Ukraine British  
/ kɑːˈpeɪθəʊjuːˈkreɪn /

noun

  1. another name for Ruthenia

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Mountainous and largely barren, the Carpatho-Ukraine was obviously expected to produce for Germany political rather than economic results.

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Hungary and Poland also covet the strategic Carpatho-Ukraine, and there have been border fights on both frontiers of the territory.

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Swift Hungarian columns darted northward over snow-choked roads through the western mountain passes of Carpatho-Ukraine as soon as Hungary learned that the lid was off.

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Czech soldiers in Carpatho-Ukraine, having learned that Bohemia was a German province, bee-lined for the Rumanian border, where they surrendered their arms and were interned.

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More significant was the Nazis' tolerance in letting Hungary grab Carpatho-Ukraine.

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