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- proper noun a
river inRussia , in the NorthCaucasus region. It flows through theKarachay-Cherkessia ,Stavropol KraiKrasnodar Krai, andAdygea . - proper noun by extension a geographic region of Southern Russia surrounding the Kuban River, on the
Black Sea between theDon Steppe ,Volga delta and theCaucasus . - proper noun
Krasnodar Krai
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Examples
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He's got an accent from his part of southern Russia, and one of the interesting things about Gorbachev to me is he grew up in what they call the Kuban down in the Caucasus region where there was never serfdom.
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They afterwards dwelt in Kuban, and finally on the Danube, where they subdued (about the year 500) the Slavo-Servians established on the Lower Danube.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Of these streams the Kuban is the largest, and empties itself as does the Rion, into the Black Sea; the other two running eastward to the Caspian.
Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia John Milton Mackie
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Plus Robert Sietsema (from the Village Voice) and Adam Kuban (from Slice) are both there.
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"A lot of the time I kick myself for not doing it first," says Adam Kuban, who started chronicling New York pizza in 2003 on his website, Slice.
Slice of Life: a Quest to Try Pies in the Big Apple Aaron Rutkoff 2011
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(This was before the Bush Governorship, which gutted funding for state parks.) (Acrocanthosaurus tracks from Dinosaur Valley State Park, Texas; photo by Glen J. Kuban)
Clever Girl 2009
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(This was before the Bush Governorship, which gutted funding for state parks.) (Acrocanthosaurus tracks from Dinosaur Valley State Park, Texas; photo by Glen J. Kuban)
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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If Adam Kuban, who visited the Land of the Rising Sun, and who indulged in a Hiroshima ham sandwich on white bread, then THAT is the end of the report, as far as I am concerned.
Who Knew? | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2010
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Mr. Kuban thinks the one-dollar shops keep the average price of the other pizza shops—which he estimated is about $2.75 a slice—in check.
Biting Into Pizza That Costs Just Eight Bits Sumathi Reddy 2011
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Old habits die hard, it seems, for Kuban Krasnodar, a club formed as Krasnodar Dynamo by KGB forerunner the NKVD in 1928.
Men in suits try to do a deal with the Boys of South Africa 2011
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