maidan

noun3

1. •
   Independence Square, the main city square in Kyiv, Ukraine.
2. •
   A marketplace or other open space in or by a city or town; an esplanade.

   • Inland, the prospect alters. There is an oval maidan, and a long sallow hospital. — 1924
3. •
   The Orange Revolution protests that took place in Kiev’s Maidan in 2004–05; the Euromaidan protests of 2013–14; the protest movement associated with the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution.

noun2

1. •
   Ellipsis of Maidan Shahr: the capital of Maidan Wardak province, Afghanistan.
2. •
   Ellipsis of Maidan Wardak: a province of Afghanistan.