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- A city of central Ukraine west-southwest of Kharkiv. Probably settled by Slavic peoples in the 8th or 9th century, it was a Cossack stronghold in the 17th century.
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- proper noun A city in east-central
Ukraine , administrative centre of Poltava province. - proper noun Poltava province (
oblast ), in central Ukraine.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Morevoer, in Poltava both sides (Russians and Swedes) had Cossacks with them. vanya says:
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While in Poltava, Wallings visited V.G. Korolenko and talked to him about the situation of peasants in the Poltava Province.
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Balashev involuntarily flushed with pleasure at the aptitude of this reply, but hardly had he uttered the word Poltava before Caulaincourt began speaking of the badness of the road from
War and Peace 2003
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Balashev involuntarily flushed with pleasure at the aptitude of this reply, but hardly had he uttered the word Poltava before Caulaincourt began speaking of the badness of the road from Petersburg to Moscow and of his Petersburg reminiscences.
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869
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The opera, based on Pushkin's epic poem "Poltava," is about Mazeppa, a 17th-century Ukrainian figure -- a patriot or traitor, depending on your point of view -- who teamed up with the Swedes to try to take the Ukraine from Russia's Peter the Great.
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“Ukraine has been politically dominated by Moscow for the vast majority of the three hundred years since the Battle of Poltava”
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Less than a year later the Swedes and Mazepa were defeated at Poltava.
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Actually, Moscow dominated Ukraine years before the Battle of Poltava.
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The fact of the matter is that Ukraine has been politically dominated by Moscow for the vast majority of the three hundred years since the Battle of Poltava and control of Ukraine has never made Russia mistress of the word.
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“The fact of the matter is that Ukraine has been politically dominated by Moscow for the vast majority of the three hundred years since the Battle of Poltava and control of Ukraine has never made Russia mistress of the word.”
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