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Tanais

Tanais proper noun: the river Don, the fifth-longest in Europe, in modern Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia.

Proper noun

Tanais

  1. (historical) The river Don, the fifth-longest in Europe, in modern Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia.
  2. An ancient city that, in antiquity, lay in the Don delta.

Forms of Tanais

alternative formTanaïs

Questions about Tanais

What does Tanais mean?
Tanais means the river Don, the fifth-longest in Europe, in modern Tula, Lipetsk, Voronezh, Volgograd and Rostov Oblasts, Russia.
What part of speech is Tanais?
Tanais is a proper noun.

Words near Tanais in the dictionary

  1. tanaidomorphs
  2. tanaids
  3. tanaim
  4. Tanaina
  5. Tanainas
  6. Tanais
  7. Tanaka
  8. Tanakas
  9. Tanakh
  10. Tanakhic
  11. Tanala

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