Kuban
English
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Proper noun
Kuban
- A river in Russia, in the North Caucasus. It flows through the Karachay-Cherkessia, Stavropol Krai Krasnodar Krai, and Adygea.
- 1971, Civil War in South Russia, 1918: The First Year of the Volunteer Army, Peter Kenez; University of California Press,
- ...ex-Imperial officers who came to the Don and the Kuban to take arms against Lenins regime...
- 1984, Tamara Dragadze, Social Science:
- "In the 1860s, the lands beyond the Kuban were settled by Black Sea and Line Cossacks from areas populated earlier..."
- 1971, Civil War in South Russia, 1918: The First Year of the Volunteer Army, Peter Kenez; University of California Press,
- (by extension) a geographic region of Southern Russia surrounding the Kuban River, on the Black Sea between the Don Steppe, Volga delta and the Caucasus.
- 1954, United American Ukrainian Organizations Committee of New York
- "In the south, the Red Army abandoned Krasnodar and all of the Kuban. Nazi forces plunged south into the Caucasian highlands and east to Stalingrad."
- 1954, United American Ukrainian Organizations Committee of New York
- Krasnodar Krai
- 2002, James Minahan, Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations:
- "In 1995, the administration of the Krasnodar Territory, again popularly called the Kuban, adopted the flag of the Kuban Cossacks, with the addition of the territorial coat of arms."
Usage notes
- Although Krasnodar Krai is often referred to as Kuban, both officially and unofficially, the term is not exclusive to the krai and accommodates the republics of Adygea, Karachay-Cherkessia and parts of Stavropol Krai.
Translations
the Kuban river
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historic region
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Portuguese
Proper noun
Kuban m
- Alternative spelling of Cuban