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Definition of Limans
1. liman [n] - See also: liman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Limans
Literary usage of Limans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Europe by George Goudie Chisholm (1899)
"Southern Russia The Limans, The Steppes, and the Region of the Black Earth The
region bordering the Black Sea on the north forms a tableland of ..."
2. Europe by Frederick William Rudler (1885)
"Southern Russia,—the Limans, The Steppes, and the Region of the Black Earth.
The region bordering the Black Sea on the north forms a tableland of ..."
3. Elements of Chemical and Physical Geology by Gustav Bischof (1854)
"From the mouth of the Danube, as far as the Nieper, all the rivers before
terminating in the sea expand into lakes (limans) of greater or less extent, ..."
4. The Foreign Quarterly Review (1842)
"The Limans of the Black Sea compose a natural phenomenon peculiar to the Engine.
They occur at the mouth of every river between the Dnieper and the Danube, ..."
5. Russia by Astolphe Custine (1844)
"The influence of these limans on the atmosphere of the surrounding coun- '*y,
... These were called limans, and the surf breaking on their outer limits, ..."
6. Ukraine, the Land and Its People: An Introduction to Its Geography by Stephen Rudnicki (1918)
"The water and the mud of such limans possess healing powers, and every summer
thousands of patients travel to the hot shores of the limans to regain their ..."
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