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Definition of Kovno
1. Noun. A city in central Lithuania.
Generic synonyms: City, Metropolis, Urban Center
Group relationships: Lietuva, Lithuania, Republic Of Lithuania
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kovno
Literary usage of Kovno
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New York Times Current History (1915)
"Reports that Kovno was being evacuated reached London on that day; on Aug.
12 the German official report announced that the Warsaw-Petro- grad Railroad had ..."
2. The Bravest of the Brave, Michel Ney: Marshal of France, Duke of Elchingen by Andrew Hilliard Atteridge (1912)
"The fact was that a flying column of Russians had crossed the Niemen above Kovno
on the ice, and occupied the Gumbinnen road. Marchand halted his men. ..."
3. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1916)
"These forward thrusts were made especially from the fortresses Grodno and Kovno,
and the fortified place Olita. We have already dealt with one such ..."
4. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1919)
"Leaving Below in Courland, he increased the area of his enveloping movement by
first capturing Kovno east of Warsaw, and the key to the Russian line of ..."
5. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1916)
"CHAPTER XLIII RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE FROM Kovno—FOREST BATTLES IN MAY AND JUNE /DEFENSIVES
on a large scale such as that which had been \J prevented by the ..."
6. Diplomatic Documents Relating to the Outbreak of the European War by James Brown Scott (1916)
"Kovno has been declared to be in a state of war. No. 9. Telegram of the Imperial
Minister in Berne to the Imperial Chancellor on July 27th, 1914. ..."
7. Russia's Decline and Fall, the Secret History of the Great Debacle by Catherine Radziwill (1918)
"THE loss of Kovno, strange as it may appear, produced in Petrograd a far deeper
... Besides, Kovno was in Russia, and its possession by the Kaiser meant a ..."
8. The Great War by George Henry Allen, Henry C. Whitehead, French Ensor Chadwick (1919)
"Capture of Kovno by the Germans, August 17th. Fall of Novo Georgievsk, August 19th.
Attempted landing of the Germans in the Gulf of Riga. ..."
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