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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of west-central Russia on the Volga River northwest of Moscow. Settled around a fort established in the 1100s, it was a powerful principality in the 1200s and 1300s and is today an industrial center and a major port. Tver was named Kalinin from 1931 to 1990 in honor of M.I. Kalinin.
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- proper noun City in Russia, centre of Tver
oblast .
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The next morning, Tuesday, June 20, the head of the Children's Hope International's operations in Tver, Alexei Savichev, came by the hotel to meet us.
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Air Force Achievement Medal; team mascot handler; summer language immersion study in Tver, Russia; Marshall Scholar.
USATODAY.com - 2005 College Academic All-Stars First Team 2005
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It is navigable as far as Rjef, a town in the government of Tver, that is, along the greater part of its course.
Michael Strogoff 2003
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It is navigable as far as Rjef, a town in the government of Tver, that is, along the greater part of its course.
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Tver, that is, along the greater part of its course.
Michael Strogoff Or, The Courier of the Czar Jules Verne 1866
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He’s dead and I’m in Tver, which is much the same thing.
Stalin's Ghost Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 2007
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It would annex rivals such as Tver and Novgorod, and eventually become the basis of the modern
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The case eventually leads Renko transferring to Tver, where he will discover what exactly is going on and who is behind it all.
“Stalin’s Ghost” by Martin Cruz Smith (Simon & Schuster, 2007) « The BookBanter Blog 2010
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin returned to his own roots yesterday in honor of the holiday, by attending a solemn Orthodox Christmas mass in the church of the Intercession of the Mother of God in the small village of Turginovo, in the country's Tver region.
Putin Celebrates Christmas In A Sweater Curtis M. Wong 2011
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Dmitry Zelinin, who heads the Tver region, pointed out that "lots of govs are in Twitter."
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