Byelorussia


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Bye·lo·rus·sia

 (byĕl′ō-rŭsh′ə)
Byel′o·rus′sian adj. & n.
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Byelorussia

or

Byelorussian Republic

n
(Placename) a variant spelling of Belarus
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Be•lo•rus•sia

(ˌbyɛl əˈrʌʃ ə, ˌbɛl ə-)

n.
a former name of Belarus. Also, Byelorussia. Former official name, Belorus′sian So′viet So′cialist Repub′lic.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.Byelorussia - a landlocked republic in eastern EuropeByelorussia - a landlocked republic in eastern Europe; formerly a European soviet
CIS, Commonwealth of Independent States - an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991
capital of Belarus, Minsk - the capital of Belarus and of the Commonwealth of Independent States
Gomel, Homel, Homyel - industrial city of Belarus to the southeast of Minsk
Pinsk - a city of southwestern Belarus
Lubavitch - a town in Belarus that was the center of the Chabad movement for a brief period during the 19th century
Dnieper, Dnieper River - a river that rises in Russia near Smolensk and flowing south through Belarus and Ukraine to empty into the Black Sea
Europe - the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles
Belorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian - a native or inhabitant of Byelorussia
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Translations

Byelorussia

[ˌbjeləʊˈrʌʃə] NBielorrusia f
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Byelorussia

[ˌbɛləʊˈrʌʃə ˌbjɛləʊˈrʌʃə] nBiélorussie f
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Byelorussia

nWeißrussland nt
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Byelorussia

[ˌbjɛləʊˈrʌʃə] nBielorussia
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The ceremony took place to the instrument version of the Byelorussia song of the famous Pesnyary music group.
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26, 1991, the USSR was dissolved; its downfall was initiated by Russia, Ukraine and Byelorussia, the three most advanced republics.
The studies analyzing the importance and prevalence of MIC are numerous and still current and performed in several countries, such as Brazil (Pires et ad, 2012; Raitz et al.; PereiraMaciel et al., 2015; Ramesh et al., 2015), Turkey (Sahman et al., 2014), Byelorussia (Kabak et al., 2016), Greece (Romanos et al.; Apostolakis & Brown, 2016) and China (Kong et al., 2016).
Rumours abound, but the wireless says everything is under control and the trains still run, supplying the Reich with the products of Ukraine and Byelorussia, where even the topsoil has been stripped and sent west.
He wrote of a town in Byelorussia where a group of peasants stumbled into what may have been the perpetually depressed Soviet economy's single growth industry: professional informing.
A guy from Russia told me, 'They' will support a coup in Egypt; that's what happened in Byelorussia; Romania; Ukraine etc.
During the 2015 Men's Junior World Handball Championship, Tunisia will play in Group A along with Sweden, Russia, Byelorussia, the Netherlands and Paraguay.
At the beginning of 2015, embargoes were still in effect in Saudi Arabia (ended but still to be ratified), Bahrain, Qatar, South Korea, Japan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Peru and Byelorussia.
concerns Ukraine's rapprochement with EU and support for cooperation with Armenia, Azerbaijan and Byelorussia.