Ukraine

U·kraine  (y-krn) A country of eastern Europe bordering on the Black Sea. Inhabited in early times by Scythians and Sarmatians, it was overrun by a number of conquerors, including Goths and Huns, until the rise of Kiev in the 9th century. The region came under the control of Lithuania in the mid-14th century and later passed to Poland and then to Russia (between 1680 and 1793). After the Russian Revolution an independent republic was proclaimed (1918), but Soviet troops retook control, and in 1922 it became one of the original constituent republics of the USSR, known as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. During World War II the republic suffered severe devastation under German occupation and underwent many territorial changes. Ukraine gained its independence following the collapse of the USSR in 1991. Kiev is the capital and largest city. Population: 48,000,000.

Ukraine

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Ukraine - a republic in southeastern Europe; formerly a European soviet; the center of the original Russian state which came into existence in the ninth century Ukrayina 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 Crimea - a Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov capital of the Ukraine, Kiev, Kyyiv - capital and largest city of the Ukraine; a major manufacturing and transportation center Donetsk, Donetske, Stalino - an industrial city in the Donets Basin Donbas, Donbass, Donets Basin - an industrial region in the Ukraine Chernobyl - a city in north central Ukraine; site of a major disaster at a nuclear power plant (26 April 1986) Kharkiv, Kharkov - a city in northeastern Ukraine; former capital of the Ukraine Odesa, Odessa - a port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea Carpathian Mountains, Carpathians - a mountain range in central Europe that extends from Slovakia and southern Poland southeastward through western Ukraine to northeastern Romania; a popular resort area Danau, Danube, Danube River - the 2nd longest European river (after the Volga); flows from southwestern Germany to the Black Sea; "Vienna, Budapest, and Belgrade are on the banks of the Danube" 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 Ukranian - a native or inhabitant of the Ukraine

Translations

Ukraine [juːˈkreɪn] n → Ucrania

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Ukraine [juːˈkreɪn] n → Ukraine f

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Ukraine [juːˈkreɪn] n → Ukraine f

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Ukraine [juːˈkreɪn] n → Ucraina