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Rovno

American  
[rawv-nuh] / ˈrɔv nə /
Also Rivne

noun

  1. a city in NW Ukraine, NE of Lviv.


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Stanley Deser was born in Rovno, Poland, a city now known as Rivne and part of Ukraine, on March 19, 1931.

From New York Times • May 8, 2023

I also discovered that Leonard Bernstein’s parents were from Rovno, 100 kilometers from Brody, where I was born.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2021

Pentecostals in Rovno, their hometown in western Ukraine, began to worry that Mr. Trump’s immigration policies would harm Lautenberg applicants.

From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2017

Intriguingly enough, just weeks before the Rovno incident, Holbrook was one of four Army officers recommended for a job as Vice President George Bush's aide-de camp.

From Time Magazine Archive

On 7 September, as Mackensen's forces were moving on Rovno and the Sereth at Tarnopol and Trembowla, Ivanov counter-attacked from Rovno and Brussilov and Lechitzky on the Sereth.

From A Short History of the Great War by Pollard, A. F. (Albert Frederick)