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- proper noun historical The territory of the former Russian Empire inhabited by
Ukrainians , approximately corresponding to modern central and easternUkraine . - proper noun historical The former Imperial Russian administrative subdivisions in north central Ukraine.
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Examples
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They had long dwelt about the Don and the Dnieper, in what is known as Little Russia, a free and rugged community which was recruited by Russians after the Tatar invasion and Polish conquest, by oppressed peasants after the creation of serfdom, and by adventurers and fugitives from justice at all times.
A Short History of Russia Mary Platt Parmele 1877
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Police spokesman Captain Hamilton Ngidi said one man was shot dead and another stabbed to death in fighting between squatters from Bhambayi and people from an area called "Little Russia" near
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World Agenda: Putin challenges West over Ukraine or 'Little Russia'
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"This is part of 'Little Russia' and is much cleaner than 'Great
Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch Michael Moukhanoff
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Last month, China's president, Hu Jintao, visited Ukraine, a neighbor that Russians long called "Malaya Rossiya" or Little Russia.
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Last month, China's president, Hu Jintao, visited Ukraine, a neighbor that Russians long called "Malaya Rossiya" or Little Russia.
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Last month, China's president, Hu Jintao, visited Ukraine, a neighbor that Russians long called "Malaya Rossiya" or Little Russia.
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Students of criminology will remember the analogous incidents in Grodno, in Little Russia, in the year '66, and of course there are the Anderson murders in North Carolina, but this case possesses some features which are entirely its own.
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Let us go together — to the Caucasus, or simply to Little Russia to eat dumplings.
Rudin 2003
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The front of the house was adorned with a small porch, with its roof supported on two oak pillars — a welcome protection from the sun, which at that season in Little Russia loves not to jest, and bathes the pedestrian from head to foot in perspiration.
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