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  • Reference Work Dnieper 81970The New Student's Reference Work — Dnieper Dnieper (nē′ pẽr), a river of Russia and the most important river of Europe, next...
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  • Volume 8 — DnieperPeter Kropotkin and John Thomas Bealby ​DNIEPER, one of the most important rivers of Europe (the Borysthenes of the Greeks, Danapris of...
    393 bytes (675 words) - 14:57, 19 February 2023
  • from the left at Nikolayev, enters the liman or lagoon into which the Dnieper also discharges. Its length is 470 m. Its upper part is beset with rapids...
    396 bytes (194 words) - 01:14, 21 January 2019
  • of the Dnieper, that river forming part of its eastern boundary. In the south-west are a few small tributaries of the Bug. Besides the Dnieper the only...
    270 bytes (649 words) - 01:56, 9 August 2020
  • our bayonets glancing moved Down the long Russian dell That to the Dnieper river bore. Ney battled in our rear; Griloff was nearly on us then, The Cossacks...
    580 bytes (738 words) - 11:15, 25 September 2021
  • The New Student's Reference Work/Dwina (category The New Student's Reference Work/Rivers)
    miles.  The river is a valuable channel of inland trade.  (2) The western Dwina rises not far from the source of the Volga and the Dnieper, emptying into...
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  • of Russia, in the government of Ekaterinoslav, on the right bank of the Dnieper, 70 m. S.S.W. of the town of Ekaterinoslav. It was formerly called Nikitin...
    444 bytes (227 words) - 17:30, 9 January 2017
  • You'll come and lure him Into the river. No more shall he laugh at me, At my tears out-flowing, But o'er him the Dnieper It's blue water is rolling. Swim...
    155 bytes (319 words) - 17:55, 30 April 2022
  • lower course of the Dnieper. It is watered by the Dnieper, which flows along the frontier for 180 miles, and by two small rivers, the Molotchnaya and...
    392 bytes (429 words) - 09:52, 21 May 2022
  • connects It with the fertile regions in the basin of the Dnieper, and, by means of the Dnieper-and-Bug canal, with Poland and Prussia, while the Oginsky...
    278 bytes (271 words) - 12:12, 16 January 2021
  • derives its importance from the river, which is navigable and joins the Oginsky canal, connecting the Niemen with the Dnieper. Corn, tar, and especially timber...
    246 bytes (190 words) - 19:07, 13 December 2019
  • 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Berezina (category EB1911:Rivers:Europe:Russia)
    Volume 3 — Berezina ​BEREZINA, a river of Russia, in the government of Minsk, forming a tributary of the Dnieper. It rises in the marshes of Borizov...
    316 bytes (119 words) - 01:12, 21 January 2019
  • against Constantinople; it was by this river too that Greek civilization and Christianity reached Kief. The Dnieper, which had made the greatness of Kief...
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  • DESNA, a river of Russia, which rises in the government of Smolensk, flows through those of Orel and Tchernigov, and falls into the Dnieper a few miles...
    461 bytes (58 words) - 12:45, 2 August 2013
  • loved Dnieper, far below. From that house Ukraina is seen, And all the land of the Hetmans. Beside the house an old gray father sits. Beyond the river the...
    474 bytes (1,009 words) - 06:56, 9 May 2022
  • capital of the above government, on a hill above the right bank of the Dnieper, about 19 m. from its mouth. Founded by the courtier Potemkin in 1778 as...
    301 bytes (231 words) - 15:37, 4 March 2018
  • governments of Kharkov, Kiev, Podolia and Poltava. The portion east of the Dnieper became Russian in 1686 and the portion west of that river in 1793....
    231 bytes (53 words) - 13:35, 15 January 2022
  • intersected by numberless ravines and old arms of the river stretch along the left bank of the Dnieper, where accordingly the settlements are few. Only 5%...
    403 bytes (969 words) - 14:15, 19 February 2023
  • ​ TCHERNIGOFF, a government of Little Russia, on the left bank of the Dnieper, bounded by Moghileff and Smolensk on the N., Orel and Kursk on the E....
    402 bytes (555 words) - 00:00, 29 January 2022
  • capital of the government of the same name, on the right bank of the Dnieper above the rapids, 673 m. by rail S.S.W. of Moscow, in 48° 21′ N. and 35°...
    260 bytes (323 words) - 14:07, 29 April 2022
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