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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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The Red High Command struck on a 150-mile front in White Russia, against the Wehrmacht's easternmost bulge.

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They have cleared the Caucasus, reoccupied almost half of the Ukraine, imperiled the Crimea, reached the borders of White Russia.

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

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The Bible has been a source of inspiration for Marc Chagall ever since he was a boy living in the ghetto of Vitebsk in White Russia.

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The districts of the Russian Empire in which a belief in vampires mostly prevails are White Russia and the Ukraine.

From Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore by William Ralston Shedden Ralston

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