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Kovno

American  
[kawv-nuh] / ˈkɔv nə /

noun

  1. the Russian name of Kaunas.


Kovno British  
/ ˈkɔvnə /

noun

  1. transliteration of the Russian name for Kaunas

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Mr. Barak survived after he was smuggled in a sack to another part of Kovno, and then sheltered by Lithuanian farmers.

From New York Times • May 5, 2023

Born in 1936 in Lithuania, Mr. Barak was nearly 5 when Nazi soldiers occupied his city of Kovno, now Kaunas.

From New York Times • May 5, 2023

In the Kovno ghetto in central Lithuania, the rabbi reluctantly told the leaders to draw up a list and save as many lives as possible, even though many others would be sacrificed.

From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2022

He was arrested in Kovno, in 1885, for his membership in the Proletariat Party, a social-revolutionary group, and sentenced, without trial, to exile in Siberia for five years.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 30, 2016

August 18, 1916 Rode to Kovno and then to Berlin.

From An Aviator's Field Book Being the field reports of Oswald Bölcke, from August 1, 1914 to October 28, 1916 by Boelcke, Oswald

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