Belorussia

Be·lo·rus·sia  (bl-rsh, byl-) or Bye·lo·rus·sia (byl-) Popularly known as White Russia

1. A region of eastern Europe in present-day Belarus and Poland. Settled by Slavs in the 5th century, it became a part of the grand duchy of Lithuania in the 14th century, merged with Poland in 1569, and was annexed by Russia in the 18th century. In 1921 the western part of the region was ceded to Poland, and the eastern part became the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, now Belarus.

2. See Belarus.

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Belorussia [ˌbjɛləʊˈrʌʃə ˌbɛl-]

n

(Placename) a variant spelling of Belarus

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

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

Translations

Belorussia [ˌbɛləʊˈrʌʃə ˌbjɛləʊˈrʌʃə ˌbɛləʊˈrʌʃə ˌbjɛləʊˈrʌʃə] n → Biélorussie f