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Definition of Sevastopol

1. Noun. A city in southern Ukraine on the Black Sea.

Definition of Sevastopol

1. Proper noun. A port city in the Crimean peninsula of Ukraine, base of the Black Sea Fleet. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sevastopol

Literary usage of Sevastopol

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of England and the British Empire by Arthur Donald Innes (1915)
"The allied forces were not sufficiently numerous to sevastopol invest sevastopol ... From Eupatoria to sevastopol the coastline runs nearly due north ..."

2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1909)
"With Lord Raglan's concurrence, therefore, it was decided to march round sevastopol and assail it, where probably assault was least expected, from the south ..."

3. Russia on the Black Sea and Sea of Azof: Being a Narrative of Travels in the by Henry Danby Seymour (1855)
"sevastopol. Road to sevastopol from ... Conquest and foundation of sevastopol in 1783-84 — Description of town and fortress — "The ..."

4. Russia on the Black Sea and Sea of Azof: Being a Narrative of Travels in the by Henry Danby Seymour (1855)
"sevastopol. Road to sevastopol from ... Conquest and foundation of sevastopol in 1783-84 — Description of town and fortress — " The ..."

5. The Region of the Eternal Fire: An Account of a Journey to the Petroleum by Charles Thomas Marvin (1884)
"Travellers often exaggerate what they see; but the chorus of encomium pronounced upon sevastopol fails to create impressions which surpass the reality. ..."

6. The Region of the Eternal Fire: An Account of a Journey to the Petroleum by Charles Thomas Marvin (1891)
"sevastopol has been so often described that I shall content myself with simply saying " ditto " to the many eminent authorities who, in language of more or ..."

7. Handbook for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland: Including the Crimea by Thomas Michell (1888)
"The distance from sevastopol to Yalta by road is 82 v. ... A carriage may be hired at sevastopol, the traveller paying the posting, or a carriage and pair ..."

8. The Methodist Review (1889)
"In 1854-55 sevastopol was the center of European interest, for France. ... sevastopol in these few months was a pandemonium; at the cl.>se it was a ruin. ..."

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