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  Dnieper River
River (748 km and 114,300 sq km) and the
River it is 590; in Belarus above the Biarezina River it is scarcely 210), and it increases slowly to 1,480 cu m/sec at Kremenchuk and 1,670 cu m/sec at the
River (Kyiv–Gdańsk route), and the Dnieper with the
www.encyclopediaofukraine.com /pages/D/N/DnieperRiver.htm   (3656 words)

  
 Dnieper River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The river is mentioned by the Ancient Greek historian Herodotus in the fifth century BC as Borysthenes; the late Greek and Roman authors called it Danapris and Danaper respectively.
The Dnieper river is important for the transport and economy of Ukraine: the river's reservoirs have all been equipped with large ship locks, allowing vessels of up to 270×18 metres to access even the port of Kiev and thus creating a perfect transport corridor.
The river is used by passenger vessels too: inland cruises on the rivers Danube and Dnieper have been a growing market in recent decades.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dnieper_river   (552 words)

  
 3. Thousand of Years of Podniprovya
River valleys were filled with the rustle of large hygrophilous forests, which in certain regions extended as far as the Black Sea and Crimea.
The forest-steppe and the steppe zones of the left bank were inhabited by tribes of the Seredniostohiv culture and the steppe zone along the Black Sea coast was inhabited by the Kemiobin culture.
There are few rivers on the face of the earth with such an abundance of ancient culture, centres, and civilisations.
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 Volunteers clean up Ukraine's rivers as part of 'Living Water' campaign (03/23/97)
The Horyn, which forms the headwaters of the Prypiat River, was the lifeblood of this community, providing clean water for irrigation and fish for food.
Water pollution is a persistent and pervasive problem in Ukraine, a country whose national identity and history is closely tied with the beloved Dnipro River, the third largest waterway in Europe.
Ukraine's Dnipro River Basin Commission found that for the six years ending in 1993 many pollutants flowing into the Dnipro and its tributaries have exceeded allowable limits.
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 Kievan Rus Database (Fortifications)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Of the five rivers on which Vladimir had forts built, four flowed into the Dnieper River from the left.
The line on the Sula River, which served as the border between Rus and the nomads for 200 years.
A huge bonfire was lighted on the tower at the first sign of danger, and since Kiev was visible with the naken eye from the tower, the apprearance of the Pechenegs on the Vitichev ford was immediately known in the capital.
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 Kievan Rus Database (Pontic Steppe)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
They formed a level expanse of prarie stretching for almost 800 miles from the Volga River to the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains in the west, a band of open country some 200 miles deep between the sea-coast and the forest country of the north.
On the one hand, we can ascertain that the Don region was probably populated by Ukrainian tribes as far as the Sea of Azov before the coming of the Hungarians and the Pechenegs.
From the west bank of Nizhnii Novgorod there is a view of the meeting of the Oka and the Volga Rivers, the town, and several villages lying on the rivers' banks.
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 Butschal, Buczacki coat of arms Abdank
They came to Biala Cerkiew on June 3, there they were going through the ranges, first grave-mound Perepetowo, Mihalhowa Dabrowa, Kolicianka, Stuhna, Borszczowka, Wijeta, Horodyszcze, Kijow, and from Chmielnik to Kijow there was 47 "podole" miles.
They left Kijow on June 18, went through the fields towards Ingulec and big Ingul, waiting were advancing through these ranges.
They crossed the rivers Nieprze, Bazawluk, which is 35 miles from Cyrkasy, Bielo Ozerski 47 miles from Cyrkasy, Chortycza 40 miles.
www.butschal.de /herbbutschal/bucz_engl.htm   (784 words)

  
 User talk:Mikkalai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Why is it useful to have such lists as Names of European cities in different languages, List of European rivers with alternative names, List of European regions with alternative names, and others?
Precisely because it is extremely unusual, in the universe of all city names, river names, region names, etc., in the entire world, for these to have such multiple names (exactly in the same way as it is unusual for English words to be of Arabic origin).
The East Slavic tribes of present-day Ukrainian (as well as Belarusian) territory did not have "g" in their dialects (see book by Shevelov cited in Ukrainian Language).
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