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White Russia

American  

noun

  1. Byelorussia.


White Russia British  

noun

  1. another name for Belarus

"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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By this partition of 1772, Russia acquired 55,000 sq. mi. of White Russia.

From Time Magazine Archive

They had so decided last November, when Russia offered Soviet citizenship to all former citizens of the Ukraine and White Russia.

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Twenty-one German generals had been captured in the disastrous Battle of White Russia, which they bitterly described as "a game of chance."

From Time Magazine Archive

With 1944 the Germans lost White Russia, the remainder of the Ukraine, half of Poland, most of the Balkans.

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J. cinerea is very hardy and effects self-polinasation in White Russia; near Kasan there is one specimen producing about 100 fruits yearly.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934 by Northern Nut Growers Association

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