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| | Dnieper. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
 | | One of the longest rivers in Europe, it rises in the Valdai Hills, W of Moscow. |
 | | It flows generally S past Smolensk, through Belarus, past Mogilev, then through Ukraine, past Kiev, Cherkasy, Kremenchuk, Dniprostpetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya (site of the Dniprohes dam), Nikopol, and Kherson into the Black Sea. |
 | | Known as Borysthenes to the ancients, the river was (9th11th cent.) a commercial route for the Vikings, Slavs, and Byzantines. |
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