Definitions
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- proper noun Volyn province (
oblast ) in northwesternUkraine . - proper noun historical Volhynia, a historic region between the Prypiat and
Buh rivers in northwestern Ukraine and part of Poland (Chełm).
Etymologies
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Examples
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The manuscript, created by a monk of the Monastery of the Mother of God in Peresopnytsia in Volyn, also shows characteristic Ukrainian decorations, and a high artistic level in the miniatures of the Ukrainian icon-painting school connected with Byzantine and Eastern Slavonic traditions.
Archbishop meets delegation from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church 2008
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Volyn '(Luts'k), Zakarpattya (Uzhhorod), Zaporizhzhya, Zhytomyr note: administrative divisions have the same names as their administrative centers (exceptions have the administrative center name following in parentheses)
The 2005 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Volyn '(Luts'k), Zakarpattya (Uzhhorod), Zaporizhzhya, Zhytomyr note: administrative divisions have the same names as their administrative centers (exceptions have the administrative center name following in parentheses)
The 2004 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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The arrival of that one Volyn regiment had done all this.
My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930
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Some one solemnly reported that the Volyn regiment had arrived from the front to put FROM JULY TO OCTOBER itself of the disposal of the Central Executive Committee.
My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930
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Martyr, b. in the little town of Volodymyr in Lithuania (Volyn) in
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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On April 8 the NGO "Russian-speaking Ukraine," headed by MP Vadym Kolesnichenko (Regions Party), and the Polish Society of the Victims of the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement organized an exhibition entitled "The Volyn massacre: Polish and Jewish victims of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army" in Ukrainian House in Kyiv, reads CUN's open address, which was released by its press service.
www.kyivpost.com 2010
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"There is a certain set of genes that leads to albinism," said Mikhail Khimin, an ornithologist and conservationist in the Volyn regional government.
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"There is a certain set of genes that leads to albinism," said Mikhail Khimin, an ornithologist and conservationist in the Volyn regional government.
Homepage The Associated Press 2010
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On April 8 the NGO "Russian-speaking Ukraine," headed by MP Vadym Kolesnichenko (Regions Party), and the Polish Society of the Victims of the Ukrainian Nationalist Movement organized an exhibition entitled "The Volyn massacre: Polish and Jewish victims of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army" in Ukrainian House in Kyiv, reads CUN's open address, which was released by its press service.
www.kyivpost.com 2010
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