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  • proper noun A city in Russia, administrative centre of Belgorod oblast.

Etymologies

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From Russian Бе́лгород (Bélgorod), literally "white city", from бе́лый (bélyj, "white, light") + го́род (górod, "town, city"). Compare Belgrade.

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Examples

  • Yeltsin campaigning for reelection, Belgorod Region, April 1996.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Yeltsin campaigning for reelection, Belgorod Region, April 1996.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Yeltsin campaigning for reelection, Belgorod Region, April 1996.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Yeltsin campaigning for reelection, Belgorod Region, April 1996.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Von Manstein had his eye on the one obvious spot, a large bulge located roughly at equal distances from Orel and Belgorod, which, as he records in his memoirs, was just “begging to be sliced off.”

    Deathride John Mosier 2010

  • Since the front extended northwestward some 1,900 kilometers from Belgorod to Leningrad, to say that the armies of the Germans and their three principal allies were overextended is putting it mildly.

    Deathride John Mosier 2010

  • Fires in the Tatarstan, Vladimir, Mordovia, Lipetsk and Belgorod regions have been extinguished, the officials said.

    Fires Still Burning Around Moscow 2010

  • By mid-March both Kharkov and Belgorod had fallen to the Germans and there was very little left of the massive spearhead that Vasilevsky had deployed to envelop Paulus at Stalingrad and then advance to Kharkov.

    Deathride John Mosier 2010

  • Shortly thereafter, on August 5, 1943, with the recapture of Orel and Belgorod, Stalin had an artillery salvo fired in a sign of victory.

    Deathride John Mosier 2010

  • During the German counterattacks of February and March 1943, the Germans had seized all the lost territory from Belgorod to Kharkov, and then along the Dnieper River all the way down to the Kalmius River and Taganrog.

    Deathride John Mosier 2010

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