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Kuban
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kuban Kuban' Kubán Kubáň
English
+ River
+ Cossacks
Etymology 1
Borrowed from en ru Куба́нь.
Pronunciation
en /kuːˈbɑːn/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Kuban.wav Southern England
Proper noun
thumb|Kuban at Krasnodar
en river c/Russia in the r/North Caucasus. It flows through the Karachay-Cherkessia, Stavropol Krai Krasnodar Krai, and Adygea.
en 1971 Civil War in South Russia, 1918: The First Year of the Volunteer Army Peter Kenez University of California Press ...ex-Imperial officers who came to the Don and the Kuban to take arms against Lenins regime...
en 1984 Tamara Dragadze Social Science "In the 1860s, the lands beyond the Kuban were settled by Black Sea and Line Cossacks from areas populated earlier..."
en by extension a geographic region of Southern Russia surrounding the Kuban River, on the Black Sea between the Don Steppe, Volga delta and the Caucasus.
1954, United American Ukrainian Organizations Committee of New York
"In the south, the Red Army abandoned Krasnodar and all of the Kuban. Nazi forces plunged south into the Caucasian highlands and east to Stalingrad."
Krasnodar Krai
en 2002 James Minahan Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations "In 1995, the administration of the Krasnodar Territory, again popularly called the Kuban, adopted the flag of the Kuban Cossacks, with the addition of the territorial coat of arms."
Usage notes
Although Krasnodar Krai is often referred to as Kuban, both officially and unofficially, the term is not exclusive to the krai and accommodates the republics of Adygea, Karachay-Cherkessia and parts of Stavropol Krai.
Translations
the Kuban river
Abaza: abq Къвбина
Abkhaz: ab Ҟәбан
Arabic: ar كوبان اَلْكُوبَان m al-kubān
Armenian: hy Կուբան
Belarusian: be Куба́нь f
Bulgarian: bg Куба́н f
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 庫班河 Kùbān Hé, cmn 庫班 Kùbān
Circassian:
East Circassian: kbd Псыжь
West Circassian: ady Псыжъ
Czech: cs Kubáň f
Danish: da Kuban
Finnish: fi Kuban
French: fr Kouban m
Georgian: ka ყუბანი
German: de Kuban m
Hebrew: he קובן
Italian: it Kuban' m
Japanese: ja クバン川 Kuban-gawa, ja クバン Kuban
Kalmyk: xal Ховң
Karachay-Balkar: krc Къобан
Korean: ko ^쿠반 강, ko ^쿠반
Nogai: nog Кобан
Ossetian: os Хъобан
Persian: fa قوبان qubân
Polish: pl Kubań f
Portuguese: pt Kuban m, pt Cuban m
Russian: ru Куба́нь f
Spanish: es Kubán m
Swedish: sv Kuban
Ukrainian: uk Куба́нь f
Written Oirat: xwo ᡍᡇᡋᡇᠨ
historic region
Bulgarian: bg Кубан
Catalan: ca Kuban
Chechen: ce ГӀоба
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 庫班 Kùbān
Circassian:
West Circassian: ady Пшызэ
Czech: cs Kubáň
Dutch: nl Koeban
French: fr Kouban
German: de Kuban
Greek: el Κουμπάν
Italian: it Kuban'
Kalmyk: xal Ховң
Latin: la Cubania
Latvian: lv Kubaņa
Lithuanian: lt Kubanė
Polish: pl Kubań
Portuguese: pt Cubã
Russian: ru Кубань
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Кубањ
Latin: sh Kubanj
Slovak: sk Kubáň
Slovene: sl Kuban
Spanish: es Kubán
Ukrainian: uk Кубань
Written Oirat: xwo ᡍᡇᡋᡇᠨ
Etymology 2
Borrowed from en cs - and en sk Kubáň or en pl Kuban.
Proper noun
s
en.
Statistics
According to the 2010 United States Census, Kuban is the 39352nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 559 individuals. Kuban is most common among White (95.17%) individuals.
Further reading
Anagrams
en abknu Knaub banku
en surnames from Czech surnames from Slovak surnames from Polish
Portuguese
Proper noun
m
pt Cuban