republic of belarus

Noun
  1. A landlocked republic in eastern Europe;
    Formerly a European soviet (synset 109033521)
    is an instance of: european country, european nation - any one of the countries occupying the European continent
    member holonym: belorussian, byelorussian, white russian - a native or inhabitant of Byelorussia
    belongs to: cis, commonwealth of independent states - an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991
    has:
    • capital of belarus, minsk - the capital of Belarus and of the Commonwealth of Independent States
    • gomel, homel, homyel - industrial city of Belarus to the southeast of Minsk
    • pinsk - a city of southwestern Belarus
    • lubavitch - a town in Belarus that was the center of the Chabad movement for a brief period during the 19th century
    • dnieper, dnieper river - a river that rises in Russia near Smolensk and flowing south through Belarus and Ukraine to empty into the Black Sea
    is a part of: europe - the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles
    same as: belarus, belorussia, byelarus, byelorussia, white russia

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