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  • proper noun A republic of Russia in the south of the country, with capital Ufa.

Etymologies

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Bashkir +‎ -ia

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Examples

  • These kinds of camps were built during the time of the pogrom in Blagoveshchenk in Bashkiria (where the police illegally arrested and beat up hundreds of innocent citizens in December 2004).

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Saint Putin Builds Detention Camps for Dissenters 2009

  • These kinds of camps were built during the time of the pogrom in Blagoveshchenk in Bashkiria (where the police illegally arrested and beat up hundreds of innocent citizens in December 2004). '

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Saint Putin Builds Detention Camps for Dissenters 2009

  • Bashkiria: Anti-Tatar feelings run high in this oil-producing region.

    Wanting Out Of Russia 2008

  • Reluctant outposts of the empire like Tataria and Bashkiria, which declared their independence under Lenin, are trying again under Gorbachev.

    Venom And Violence 2008

  • But we have wandered a long way from the road to Bashkiria.

    Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880

  • He was a kind of universal genius; but his faded, tattered khalat showed only too plainly that in Bashkiria, as in more civilised countries, universal genius and the artistic temperament lead to poverty rather than to wealth.

    Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880

  • Shoppers were evacuated and firefighting teams tackled the blaze at the huge complex, which houses stores, restaurants and night clubs in the largest city in Russia's Bashkiria region, which has a large Muslim population.

    Reuters: Top News 2011

  • Shoppers were evacuated and firefighting teams tackled the blaze at the huge complex, which houses stores, restaurants and night clubs in the largest city in Russia's Bashkiria region, which has a large Muslim population.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Bashir Pliyev, a 44-year-old ethnic Ingush, known among rebels as the emir of Bashkiria, escaped the initial operation but was detained by FSB officers on Tuesday, Interfax reported, citing local security officials.

    The Moscow Times By Alexander Bratersky 2010

  • Chelyabinsk, village of Ovsyanka (Krasnoyarsk Territory), village of Tolbazy (Bashkiria),

    WN.com - Articles related to DTI favors zero tariffs on cement, wheat 2010

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