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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian Белоруссия (Belorussija).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Byelorussia
- (historical) Belarus
1992, Richard Nixon, “The Former Evil Empire”, in Seize the Moment, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 57:In Byelorussia, Stalin not only killed 100,000 people in purges and repression in the 1930s but also doomed 1.5 million people and 75 percent of the republic's cities and towns to death and destruction through his half-witted military strategies in World War II.
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