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  • proper noun Alternative form of Rivne.

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Examples

  • So please, if there are any linguists out there specializing in the Jewish shtetls of Galicia and the city of Rovno in particular, let me know if you have any leads.

    Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010

  • So please, if there are any linguists out there specializing in the Jewish shtetls of Galicia and the city of Rovno in particular, let me know if you have any leads.

    Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010

  • Oz's mother, Fania, was born to a wealthy Jewish family in Rovno, a city in western Ukraine.

    Johann Hari: Israel's Voice of Reason? An Exclusive Interview With Amos Oz 2009

  • Sophie Simon Loeb was born in Rovno, Russia, on July 4, 1876.

    Sophie Irene Simon Loeb. 2009

  • July 1941, received orders to advance through Klevan toward Rovno and establish contact with General der Kavallerie von Mackensen's III Army Corps.

    Panzer Aces Kurowski, Franz 1992

  • Third Army Corps had advanced too far too quickly, and its panzer divisions had been virtually surrounded by the enemy east of Rovno.

    Panzer Aces Kurowski, Franz 1992

  • Vatutin had captured Rovno and begun to wheel his armour south toward the upper Dniester and the foothills of the Carpathians.

    Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

  • The Russian front in the south had begun to give way at the beginning of July, when Kirponos, with his tank strength exhausted, had been levered off the Rovno-Dubno-Ternopol axis and forced back at a pace, which daily gathered momentum, into the wide-open spaces of the Ukraine proper.

    Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

  • On 22nd June, Kirponos had ordered up all three mechanised corps from the reserve with the intention of concentrating them northeast of Rovno and staging an attack, together with the 22nd (which was already in position there), against Kleist's left flank.

    Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

  • Another traveller, Mr. Fairman, is summarily arrested near Rovno where the Tsar's visit is making the police unduly brisk for the moment.

    Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore

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