Kiovia

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Obsolete form of Kyiv. alt-of, obsolete

    "Before this time the Coſacks were only a wild and barbarous ſort of Rabble, who were gathered out of the Poliſh Ruſſia, and having ſettled themſelves in the Iſland of the River Boryſthenes beneath Kiovia, lived upon Robbing and Plunder."

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"Before this time the Coſacks were only a wild and barbarous ſort of Rabble, who were gathered out of the Poliſh Ruſſia, and having ſettled themſelves in the Iſland of the River Boryſthenes beneath Kiovia, lived upon Robbing and Plunder."

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin Kiōvia.

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