Ilmen
Britishnoun
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In the middle ages a proud port of trade was the free city of Novgorod, situated on Lake Ilmen in what is now Northern Russia, some 100 miles from Leningrad.
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The Germans, who for weeks had observed, reported and presumably countered the Russians' preparations, said that fighting was in progress from Kalinin, north of Moscow, to Lake Ilmen below Leningrad.
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Thence he went to the shores of Lake Ilmen, sang sorrowfully until there appeared Volkhova, Princess of the Sea.
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His most recent training in modern warfare was in Russia, where he commanded the Spanish Blues, who fought as the 250th Wehrmacht Division on the Lake Ilmen sector.*
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And the lake Ilmen in Russia I take to be in effect the same word as the lake Leman in Switzerland.
From The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson
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