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Wolhynia

Wolhynia is the alternative form of Volhynia.

Meaning of Volhynia

Proper noun

Volhynia

  1. (historical) A geographic region of Eastern Europe, now divided between southeastern Poland, northwestern Ukraine, and southwestern Belarus.
  2. (historical) A former voivodeship of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, established in 1566, disestablished in 1795.
  3. (historical) A former governorate of the Russian Empire, the Ukrainian People's Republic, Ukrainian State and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, established in 1795, disestablished in 1925. Seat: Zhytomyr.

Questions about Wolhynia

What is Wolhynia the alternative form of?
Wolhynia is the alternative form of Volhynia.

Words near Wolhynia in the dictionary

  1. Wolgal
  2. Wolgamott
  3. Wolgamotts
  4. Wolgan Valley
  5. wolgidite
  6. Wolhynia
  7. Wolin
  8. Wolinian
  9. Wolins
  10. Wolinski
  11. Wolinskis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Wolhynia (page history and authors); Volhynia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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