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belaruses

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Be⋅la⋅rus

  [byel-uh-roos, bel‑]
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–noun
official name of Byelorussia.

Bye⋅lo⋅rus⋅sia

  [byel-oh-ruhsh-uh, bel-oh-]
–noun
1. Official name, Belarus. Formerly, White Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. a republic in E Europe, N of Ukraine: formerly a part of the Soviet Union. 10,439,916; 80,154 sq. mi. (207,600 sq. km). Capital: Minsk.
2. a region in the W part of former czarist Russia.
Also, Belorussia.
Also called White Russia.
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Belarus [(bee-luh-roohs)]

Republic in eastern Europe, bordered to the northwest by Russia, Lithuania, and Latvia, to the northeast, east, and southeast by Russia, to the south by Ukraine, and to the west by Poland. Its capital and largest city is Minsk.

Note: This former member of the Soviet Union declared its independence in 1991.
Note: Belarus is also known as White Russia or Belorussia.
The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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