Kiev (redirected from Kiiow)

Ki·ev  (kf, -v) or Ky·yiv (-w)

The capital of Ukraine, in the north-central part of the country on the Dnieper River southwest of Moscow. One of the oldest cities in northern Europe, it was a commercial center by the fifth century and became the capital of Kievan Russia in the ninth century. Invaded by the Mongols in 1240, it passed to Lithuania in the 14th century, became part of the Russian empire in 1686, and was ceded to the USSR in 1920. Population: 2,660,000.

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Kiev [ˈkiːɛf (Russian) ˈkijɪf]

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(Placename) the capital of the Ukraine, on the Dnieper River: formed the first Russian state by the late 9th century; university (1834). Pop.: 2 620 900 (1998 est.)

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Kiev - capital and largest city of the Ukraine; a major manufacturing and transportation center capital of the Ukraine, Kyyiv Ukraine, Ukrayina - a republic in southeastern Europe; formerly a European soviet; the center of the original Russian state which came into existence in the ninth century