Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of extreme western Russia in an exclave on the Baltic Sea between Poland and Lithuania. Founded in 1255 and originally named Königsberg, it was an important Hanseatic port and eventually became the capital of East Prussia. Transferred to the USSR in 1945, it was renamed Kaliningrad in 1946.
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- proper noun A city, occupying the same site as
Königsberg , located in what is now the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia.
Etymologies
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KALININGRAD (SPT) - A wild beaver bit a girl in the center of Kaliningrad on Wednesday.
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KALININGRAD (SPT) - A wild beaver bit a girl in the center of Kaliningrad on Wednesday.
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KALININGRAD (SPT) - A wild beaver bit a girl in the center of Kaliningrad on Wednesday.
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KALININGRAD (SPT) - A wild beaver bit a girl in the center of Kaliningrad on Wednesday.
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KALININGRAD (SPT) - A wild beaver bit a girl in the center of Kaliningrad on Wednesday.
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KALININGRAD (SPT) - A wild beaver bit a girl in the center of Kaliningrad on Wednesday.
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KALININGRAD (SPT) - A wild beaver bit a girl in the center of Kaliningrad on Wednesday.
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KALININGRAD (SPT) - A wild beaver bit a girl in the center of Kaliningrad on Wednesday.
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But the whole point of proposing a Jewish state in Kaliningrad, or Bavaria, or someplace like that, is that the Germans were the ones responsible for the Holocaust, and therefore the Germans should be the ones to pay for it.
Matthew Yglesias » Goldberg: The Middle East Is Complicated and It’s All the Arabs’ Fault 2010
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Just after Ukrainian independence Russia actually claimed that Sevastopol and much of the area around Yalta rightfully belonged to Russia (in the same way that Kaliningrad is still Russian territory).
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