Byelorussia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Белоруссия (Belorussija).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌbjɛləˈɹʌʃə/

Proper noun

Byelorussia

2. (historical) Belarus
   • 1992, Richard Nixon, “The Former Evil Empire”, in Seize the Moment‎^[1], Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 57:

     In Byelorussia, Stalin not only killed 100,000 people in purges and repression in the 1930s but also doomed 1.5 million people and 75 percent of the republic's cities and towns to death and destruction through his half-witted military strategies in World War II.

Derived terms

• Byelorussian