peninsula
noun
- Spain and Portugal together; Iberian Peninsula; Iberia.
- a district in SE Virginia between the York and James rivers: Civil War battles.
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Contemporary Examples of peninsula
KIEV, Ukraine—He took the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea with just a few shots fired.
In point of fact, the good times have not yet started to roll in the Black Sea peninsula.
On one side of the silver medallion is a raised image of the outline of the Crimean peninsula.
The snap referendum was held two weeks after Russian forces seized the peninsula and blockaded Ukrainian soldiers in their bases.
The peninsula had been transferred for administrative reasons from Russia to Ukraine in 1954.
Historical Examples of peninsula
They were on a peninsula, as it were, while the soldiers were securing the isthmus.
The Story of the Malakand Field ForceSir Winston S. Churchill
On them were engraved in gilt letters, "The Peninsula" and "Waterloo."
The Autobiography of Sergeant William LawrenceWilliam Lawrence
Diarrhœa and dysentery were already sending many of them from the Peninsula.
With Manchesters in the EastGerald B. Hurst
The war with the Turks on the Peninsula became purely a war of tactics.
With Manchesters in the EastGerald B. Hurst
The Division remained on the Peninsula until the 29th December.
With Manchesters in the EastGerald B. Hurst