Yalta

[ yawl-tuh; Ukrainian yahl-tah ]

/ ˈyɔl tə; Ukrainian ˈyɑl tɑ /

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noun

a seaport in Crimea, in southeastern Ukraine, on the Black Sea: site of wartime conference of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin February 4–12, 1945.

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How to use Yalta in a sentence

Prior 2014, an opinion was popular among some experts that Russia was counting on a second “Yalta” – in the sense of the world redistribution by blocs.
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Yalta was great for strolls along the sea during the Byzantine, Ottoman and Russian empires.
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This week, he will meet with Putin in Yalta for a major summit.
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Politically he achieved his aim of revising the map of middle Europe so disastrously drawn at Yalta.
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In fact, the Yalta Agreement promised freedom and independence for Eastern Europe.
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I came to Yalta for a few days, and one evening I met Chekhov on the quay.
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Yalta was hardly visible through the morning mist; white clouds stood motionless on the mountain-tops.
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Most likely this was the husband whom at Yalta, in a rush of bitter feeling, she had called a flunkey.
The Lady With The Dog and Other Stories|Anton Chekhov
They reached Sevastopol in the evening and stopped at an hotel to rest and go on the next day to Yalta.
The Lady With The Dog and Other Stories|Anton Chekhov
It was with reference to these two points that Yalta observed of him, "Travelers are full of twaddle, and rags of vermin."
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British Dictionary definitions for Yalta

Yalta

/ (Russian ˈjaltə) /

noun

a port and resort in S Ukraine, in the Crimea on the Black Sea: scene of a conference (1945) between Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin, who met to plan the final defeat and occupation of Nazi Germany. Pop: 80 552 (2005 est)

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