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Carpatho-Ukraine

American  
[kahr-pey-thoh-yoo-kreyn] / 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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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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Mountainous and largely barren, the Carpatho-Ukraine was obviously expected to produce for Germany political rather than economic results.

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After Munich, Ruthenia, easternmost district of Czecho-Slovakia, now called the Carpatho-Ukraine, became an "autonomous" region with only loose connections with Prague but with very definite though unofficial links with Berlin.

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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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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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