Maikop
Americannoun
noun
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South of Malinovsky's Armies, in the north Caucasus, is another force, under General I. V. Tulienev, which last week captured the Maikop oil fields.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hitler had taken the minor Maikop oil fields, facing the great range of the Caucasus which divides the Black Sea from the Caspian.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Caucasian Campaign was for oil, and last week the Germans lost Maikop, the only oil center they had captured.
From Time Magazine Archive
An oft-told tale is Hitler's compelling need of oil, the abundance of which beckons him to Maikop and Baku.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the north a long cliff road leads to Novorossisk a hundred miles, and southward the same road goes on to Tuapse, some fifty miles from Maikop and the English oil-fields.
From A Tramp's Sketches by Stephen Graham
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