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Kuban'

Kuban' is the alternative form of Kuban.

Meaning of Kuban

Proper noun (1)

Kuban

  1. A river in Russia in the North Caucasus. It flows through the Karachay-Cherkessia, Stavropol Krai Krasnodar Krai, and Adygea.
    • ...ex-Imperial officers who came to the Don and the Kuban to take arms against Lenins regime...1971, Peter Kenez, Civil War in South Russia, 1918: The First Year of the Volunteer Army, University of California Press
  2. (broadly) a geographic region of Southern Russia surrounding the Kuban River, on the Black Sea between the Don Steppe, Volga delta and the Caucasus.
    • "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
  3. Krasnodar Krai
    • "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."2002, James Minahan, Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations

Proper noun (2)

Kuban (plural Kubans)

  1. A surname.

Questions about Kuban'

What is Kuban' the alternative form of?
Kuban' is the alternative form of Kuban.

Words near Kuban' in the dictionary

  1. Kubacki
  2. Kubackis
  3. Kubala
  4. Kubalas
  5. Kuban
  6. Kuban'
  7. kubaneh
  8. Kubang Pasu
  9. Kubango
  10. kubanka
  11. kubankas

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