Carpatho-Ukraine

American

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

noun

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

Carpatho-Ukraine British

/ kɑːˈpeɪθəʊjuːˈkreɪn /

noun

another name for Ruthenia

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Carpatho-Ukraine

To a Germany which frankly wants to get a foothold in Carpatho-Ukraine, right next to Slovakia, such a plan smelled good.

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

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But the Ukrainian Nationalist Guards of Carpatho-Ukraine, armed at the last minute by Premier Augustin Volosin, long a Ukrainian nationalist leader, put up a stiff resistance.

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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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