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hegemony (iou) and Rybinsk Reservoir (sh)


hegemony (iou)



hegemony noun. M16.
[Greek hegemonia, from hegemon: see HEGEMON, -MONY.]
Leadership or predominance, esp. by one member of a confederacy or union (orig. of the States of ancient Greece); a State etc. having this. M16.
H. H. Asquith Attempting..to secure for the Papal State the political hegemony of Italy. A. Briggs A new working-class hegemony,..an attempt to build a paradise for the poor.
Dominance or undue influence exercised by a country (spec. the former USSR) over its weaker neighbour(s). L20.
Daily Telegraph In Third World terms 'hegemony' has come generally to mean Soviet domination.
hegemonist noun an advocate of a particular form of hegemony L19.

Rybinsk Reservoir (sh)




Lake, on the upper Volga River, northwestern Russia.

It was created by two dams on the Volga and its tributary, the Sheksna. When the project was completed in 1947, a lake of 1,768 sq mi (4,580 sq km) in area was formed; it was the world's largest artificial body of water. It regulates the flow of the Volga, provides power for Moscow and Other cities, and is part of the Volga-Baltic Waterway.