Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
an autonomous republic in southwestern Russia in the northern Caucasus Mountains bordering on Georgia;
declared independence from the USSR in 1991 but Russian troops invaded and continue to prosecute a relentless military campaign in the largely Muslim republic;
[syn: Chechnya, Chechenia, Chechen Republic]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Chechenia
n 1: an autonomous republic in southwestern Russia in the
northern Caucasus Mountains bordering on Georgia; declared
independence from the USSR in 1991 but Russian troops
invaded and continue to prosecute a relentless military
campaign in the largely Muslim republic [syn: Chechnya,
Chechenia, Chechen Republic]