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- adjective Referring to the
Crimea region. - proper noun The Crimean
Peninsula .
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Examples
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The disease was first described in the Crimea in 1944 and given the name Crimean haemorrhagic fever.
Chapter 2 1998
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Men in Crimean-type uniforms, parading around, would be meaningless if they were not real soldiers inside, perhaps just back from Northern Ireland or off to serve in Germany.
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This was known as the Crimean War, which ended disastrously for
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"Mr. Henty not only concocts a thrilling tale, he weaves fact and fiction together with so skillful a hand that the reader cannot help acquiring a just and clear view of that fierce and terrible struggle known as the Crimean War."
Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life Margaret E. Winslow
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The war was fought in the Crimea, a little peninsula in the Black Sea, and from that it was called the Crimean War.
An Island Story: A History of England for Boys and Girls Henrietta Elizabeth 1920
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Poland; and there is the so-called Crimean fever in the neighbourhood of the Sivash and in a region on the coast of the Black Sea.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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Sevastopol fell after a long and terrible siege, and the so-called Crimean War came to a close.
An Introduction to the History of Western Europe James Harvey Robinson 1899
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What we shortly call the Crimean war was to Mr. Gladstone the vindication of the public law of Europe against a wanton disturber.
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 John Morley 1880
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"Mr. Henty not only concocts a thrilling tale, he weaves fact and fiction together with so skillful a hand that the reader cannot help acquiring a just and clear view of that fierce and terrible struggle known as the Crimean War."
Slow and Sure The Story of Paul Hoffman the Young Street-Merchant Horatio Alger 1865
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In 1854 the war (commonly called the Crimean war) broke out, and I was appointed first lieutenant of H.M.S. ---- for service in the Baltic.
Sketches From My Life By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden 1854
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