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Semirechye
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English
Etymology
en ru Семиречье, itself composed of ru семь seven, ru река river, ru -ье -ia, a calque of en kk Jetısu Seven Rivers.
Proper noun
en historical An oblast (province) of the Russian Empire corresponding to most of present-day southeastern Kazakhstan and northeastern Kyrgyzstan.
en 1989 H. T. Willetts w:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn August 1914 69 w:Farrar, Straus and Giroux 0-374-51999-4 During his long and successful career as ataman of the Don Cossacks, then as governor-general of Turkestan and ataman of the Semirechye Cossacks, Cavalry General Samsonov had learned to carry out his duties in an unhurried and deliberate fashion.
Translations
oblast
Basque: eu Semiretxie
Belarusian: be Семірэчча
Bulgarian: bg Седморечие
Czech: cs Sedmiříčí
Dutch: nl Zevenstromenland
German: de Siebenstromland
Greek: el Επταποταμία
Italian: it Semireč'e
Japanese: ja セミレチエ地方 Semireche-chihō
Kazakh: kk Jetısu
Latin: la Heptapotamia Contemporary Latin
Polish: pl Siedmiorzecze n
Russian: ru Семиречье n
Serbo-Croatian: sh Семиречје
Slovak: sk Sedemriečie
Ukrainian: uk Семиріччя