Pripet Marshes

[ prip-it mahr-shuhz, -et ]

plural noun

1. an extensive wooded marshland in southern Belarus and northwest Ukraine. 33,500 sq. mi. (86,765 sq. km).

Example Sentences

The total casualties suffered by him in that campaign almost equalled the original strength of his armies between the Pripet Marshes and the Carpathian Mountains.

From Project Gutenberg

Grodno was evacuated at the beginning of September, and though General Everts escaped from Brest-Litovsk with his supplies and guns, he could not hold up Mackensen's irresistible march on Pinsk, even in the Pripet marshes, which were dry at that season of the year.

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The German effort in the south, below the Pripet marshes, also slackened.

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The Russian line was nearly straight; the wings were hard pressed, but they could still resist; and the centre was too far within the Pripet marshes for easy capture.

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One army group would strike northward, toward Leningrad; another army group from the Warsaw area would move north of the Pripet Marshes toward Moscow, which Hitler planned to level and leave forever uninhabitable; the southernmost group, from Rumania, would storm across the Ukraine toward Kiev and Stalingrad.

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