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Balaklava (, , , ) is a former city on the Crimean Peninsula and part of the city of Sevastopol. It was a city in its own right until 1957 when it was formally incorporated into the municipal borders of Sevastopol by the Soviet government. It also is an administrative center of Bakalava Raion that used to be part of the Crimean Oblast before it was transferred to Sevastopol Municipality. Population:
Balaklava was the second album recorded and released by psychedelic folk group Pearls Before Swine in 1968.
Usage examples of "balaklava".
They brought them from the Malakoff, from the Redan, Inkerman, Balaklava--every where.
We're about to cover some ground in a breathtaking breakneck gallop as daring as any the world has heard since the plains at Balaklava thundered to the gallant hoofbeats of hopeless heroes.
Because there were times when a "bang-bang" like himself was needed, just as Balaklava had had soldiery who performed their jobs while Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thundered He smiled, amused by Tennyson's romanticizing, and his own.
Yonge, though health obliged the latter to return from Varna, while the former took part in the famous Balaklava charge, and was unhurt, though his horse was killed.