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MUSCOVY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Russian principality in the 13th to 16th centuries; Moscow was the capital
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
princedom; principality (territory ruled by a prince)
Holonyms ("Muscovy" is a part of...):
Russia (a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917)
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