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Proper Noun

1. 1
   Alternative form of Zaporizhzhia:; An industrial city and urban hromada, the administrative center of Zaporizhzhia Raion and Zaporizhzhia Oblast, in south-central Ukraine, on the Dnipro River.
2. 2
   Alternative form of Zaporizhzhia:; A raion of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine.
3. 3
   Alternative form of Zaporizhzhia:; An oblast in southeast Ukraine, also illicitly claimed by Russia.
4. 4
   Alternative form of Zaporizhzhia:; A geographic region south-central Ukraine, “beyond the rapids” in the lower reaches of the Dnipro River, base of the Zaporozhian Cossacks. historical

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zaporizhia

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Запоро́жье (Zaporóžʹje), the Russian form of Ukrainian Запорі́жжя (Zaporížžja).

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