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- noun geology an extensive depression having a flat floor and steep walls but no outflowing surface stream and found in a region having
karst topography (as in parts of Yugoslavia)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Montenegrins that it was no uncommon sight to see them cultivating so minute a _polje_ that the wheat which it produced would give no more than half a loaf.
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Henry Baerlein 1917
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There spread out, burnt, and parched before us for miles and miles, was Kosovo-polje, the fatal field on which the Turks gained the victory that established them, even to this day, in Europe – the Armageddon of the Servian people.
High Albania Mary Edith 1909
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If a female Giaour could come without escort to Kosovo-polje, God alone knew what would happen next.
High Albania Mary Edith 1909
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We were defending a _polje_ -- one of their high mountain valleys, against a Beg and his troops.
The Marriage of William Ashe Humphry Ward 1885
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Unpublished lectures at the Ampere International Summer School II, Basko polje, Yugoslavia.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Unpublished lectures at the Ampere International Summer School II, Basko polje, Yugoslavia.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Unpublished lectures at the Ampere International Summer School II, Basko polje, Yugoslavia.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Unpublished lectures at the Ampere International Summer School II, Basko polje, Yugoslavia.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Unpublished lectures at the Ampere International Summer School II, Basko polje, Yugoslavia.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Unpublished lectures at the Ampere International Summer School II, Basko polje, Yugoslavia.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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