White Russia (redirected from Belarusian name)

White Russia

See Belarus.

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White Russia

n

(Placename) another name for Belarus

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White Russia - a landlocked republic in eastern Europe; formerly a European soviet Belarus, Belorussia, Byelarus, Byelorussia, Republic of Belarus 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