English Explanatory Dictionary

Third Rome

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A political concept of Moscow as the successor of the Byzantine Empire and the Roman Empire, later extended to Russia in nationalist discourse.

Word forms

Third Rome

Etymology

Calque of Russian Тре́тий Рим (Trétij Rim).

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