Kishinev

American  

[kish-uh-nef, -nawf, kyi-shi-nyawf] / ˈkɪʃ əˌnɛf, -ˌnɔf, kjɪ ʃɪˈnjɔf /

noun

1. a city in and the capital of Moldova, in the central part.

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Kishinev British  

/ kiʃiˈnjɔf /

noun

1. the Russian name for Chişinǎu

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Kishinev

The pogrom in Chisinau, also known as Kishinev, “was a very central event that drove modern Zionism,” the Israeli prime minister, Naftali Bennett, said in a phone interview on Monday.

From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2022

Lieberman, who is sixty, was born in Kishinev, now in Moldova—the site of an infamous pogrom in 1903.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 1, 2019

Mr. Friedman, whose family emigrated from Kishinev, Russia, as the threat of pogroms mounted, started out as a plant geneticist.

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2015

The same is with Nistru and Chisinau to the opposite of Russian spelling Dniestr and Kishinev.

From Economist ● Nov. 19, 2013

On the 26th Rumanian troops attacked and captured Kishinev, the chief city in Bessarabia.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. by Various

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