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russia | france |

As proper nouns the difference between russia and france

is that russia is russia while france is france.

russia

English

(wikipedia Russia)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. The Country extends from the Gulf of Finland to the Pacific Ocean, and was part of the USSR from 1922 to 1991. Co-official name - Russian Federation,'' formerly the ''Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic'' (RSFSR), Capital and largest city ''Moscow
  • (historical, informal) The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (a very common name, although more formally Russia, the RSFSR, was one of several constituent republics of the USSR).
  • (historical) The Russian Empire.
  • (historical, dated) Rus, the medieval East Slavic state.
  • (dated, countable) Any of several East Slavic states descended from the Rus, typically including Russia (Great Russia), Belarus (White Russia) and Ukraine (Little Russia or Kievan Russia).
  • *1842 , George Eliot, "Letter to Cara Bray", Selections from George Eliot's letters , page 24:
  • Or rather if I be attaining a better autocratship than that of the Emperor of all the Russias – the empire over self.

    Derived terms

    * Black Russia * Great Russia * Kievan Russia * Little Russia * Mother Russia * New Russia * Russia calf * Russia iron * Russia leather * Russia linen * Russia mat * Russia matting * Russian * White Russia

    See also

    * * * Former Soviet Union * Former USSR * Soviet Union (historical) * USSR (historical) * English words suffixed with -ia ----

    france

    English

    (wikipedia France)

    Alternative forms

    * Fraunce (obsolete)

    Proper noun

    (Frances)
  • A country in Western Europe which borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Andorra and Spain, is a member state of the European Union and has a population of 62 million inhabitants. Official name: French Republic ().
  • * 1998 , Shanny Peer, France on Display: Peasants, Provincials, and Folklore (ISBN 0791437108), page 2:
  • Although scholars have offered different chronologies and causalities for the move toward modernity, most have resolved the paradox of the two Frances' by placing them in sequence: "diverse '''France''' gave way over time as modern centralized ' France gathered force."
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=April 23 , author=Angelique Chrisafis , title=François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=Hollande told cheering supporters in his rural fiefdom of Corrèze in south-west France' that he was best-placed to lead ' France towards change, saying the vote marked a "rejection" of Sarkozy and a "sanction" against his five years in office.}}
  • , a French poet, journalist, and novelist

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