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	Dvina - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Dvina (German Düna), name of two rivers, eastern and northeastern Europe.
		Daugava, also Western Severnaya Dvina (Russian Zapadnaya Severnaya Dvina), river in northeastern Europe, which rises in the Valday Hills in...
		- river in northeastern Europe, comprising the Northern Dvina and the Western Dvina.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Dvina.html (77 words)

	Latvia: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		Latvia falls into four historic regions: North of the Western Dvina (Daugava) River are Vidzeme and Latgale, which were parts of Livonia ; south of the Dvina are Kurzeme and Zemgale, which belonged to the former duchy of Courland.
		Latvia is largely a fertile lowland, drained by the Western Dvina, the Venta, the Gauja, and the Lielupe.
		DVINA, river, Russia, Belarus, and Latvia or Western Dvina, Ger.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/101254618 (2743 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for western
		Western Michigan University at Kalamazoo, Mich.; coeducational; founded in 1903 as Western State Normal School, became accredited in 1927 as a college, gained university status in 1957.
		Western Reserve tract of land in NE Ohio, on the southern shore of Lake Erie, retained by Connecticut in 1786 when it ceded its claims to its western lands (see Northwest Territory).
		COUNTRY CRADLE Country and western is the purest form of American music and yet it holds a very special place in the hearts of Scots.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=western (651 words)

	Volga - LoveToKnow 1911
		By a system of canals which connect the upper Volga with the Neva, the commercial mouth of the Volga has been transferred, so to speak, from the Caspian to the Baltic, thus making St Petersburg, the capital and chief seaport of Russia, the chief port of the Volga basin as well.
		Other less important canals connect it with the Western Dvina (Riga) and the White Sea (Archangel); while a railway only 45 m.
		Lake Seliger was formerly considered to be the principal source;but that distinction is now given to a small spring issuing beneath a chapel (57° 15' N.; 32° 30' E.) in the midst of a large marsh to the west of Seliger.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Volga (2488 words)

	Encyclopædia Britannica Australia -
		It is latitudinally divided into two parallel belts of land: the western portion of the Sudan, a geographic area that stretches across the entire width of...
		Western Australia is bounded on the north by the Timor Sea, on the northwest and west by the Indian Ocean,...
		Western Cape province was part of former Cape of Good Hope province until 1994.
	www.britannica.com.au /britannica_browse/w/w19.html (1739 words)

	AllRefer.com - Dvina, river, Russia, Belarus, and Latvia (CIS And Baltic Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Dvina, river, Russia, Belarus, and Latvia, CIS And Baltic Physical Geography
		Rising in the Valdai Hills, it flows S and then generally W past Velizh and through Belarus, past Vitebsk and Polotsk, and through Latvia, past Daugavpils and Riga, into the Gulf of Riga, an arm of the Baltic Sea.
		The Dvina's main port is Riga, and the river is connected by canal with the Berezina and the Dnieper rivers.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/DvinaW.html (236 words)

	Peter Bagration
		Recognizing that the western borders of Russia was divided by the bogs of Polesye on two parts - northern and southern, Full supposed that the likely approaches of Napoleon's army could only be in one of two directions: either to the north from Polesye or to the south of it.
		In Western Dvina at Dryssa, the urgent construction of the so-called « Camp of Dryss» began.
		The gap between the 1st and 2nd Western Armies was 100 kilometers, and between the 2nd and 3rd Armies was 200 kilometers.
	napoleon-series.org /research/biographies/bagration/c_bagration3.html (1263 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Dvina
		Courland or Kurland, Latvian Kurzeme, historic region and former duchy, in Latvia, between the Baltic Sea and the Western Dvina River.
		The region forms the watershed of the upper Volga, the Western Dvina, and the Dnieper rivers and also of the rivers that flow into Lake Ilmen.
		Latgale or Latgallia, region and former province, in Latvia, N of the Western Dvina River.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Dvina&StartAt=11 (540 words)

	Floods and waterlogging
		Floods of such a type were recorded on the Neman in 1958 (the most significant for the last 150 years), on the Pripyat in 1970 and 1977, in the upper flow of the Dnieper and Western Dvina in 1908 and 1931.
		High water is a relatively steady increase in water content, which repeats in the same season every year and is accompanied by a high and prolonged rise in water and overflow from the estuary onto its floodplain.
		The floodplains of rivers in the W. Dvina basin are more rarely flooded, the depth of overflow there is 1-1,5 m.
	enrin.grida.no /htmls/belarus/water2003en/Text/ch3-1.htm (905 words)

	Russia - MSN Encarta
		On the northern portion of the Great European Plain, the Daugava (Western Dvina) and Narva rivers flow north and west to the Baltic Sea; the Pechora, Northern Dvina, Mezen’ and Onega rivers flow to the Barents Sea and the White Sea.
		Eastward to the western slopes of the Urals, pines are still common, but firs predominate.
		Both the forest-steppe and the steppe have fertile soils and together form a region known as the chernozem, or fl-earth, belt; this is the agricultural heartland of Russia.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761569000_3/Russia.html (1943 words)

	Untitled Document
		The Baltic complex is localized in the lower tributaries of the Neman river, the Venta river, lower tributaries of the Dvina (Daugava) River, the basin of the Gaua River, on the coast of the Bay of Finland, in the area of the Lake Chud’ and the Narva River.
		The White Lake-Kama morphological complex is localized in the area of White Lake, in the upper tributaries of the Onega river, the Northern Dvina River and it’s tributaries, and in the basin of the Vyatka and Kama rivers.
		The Central East European complex is prevalent along the banks of the Oka river, the Upper tributaries of the Don, the Klyazma river, the middle and upper banks of the Volga, the Tsna river, the Vorksel’ river, the Khoper river and the Medveditsa river.
	slavanthro.org /complexes_eng.html (1420 words)

	History of Latvia: A brief synopsis
		In the mid-12th century, German merchants from Lübeck and Bremen were visiting the estuary of the Western Dvina; these visits were followed by the arrival of German missionaries.
		The indigenous nobility was extinguished, apart from a few of its members who changed their allegiance; and the rural population was forced to pay tithes and taxes to their German conquerors and to provide corvée, or statute labour.
		In 1561 the Latvian territory was partitioned: Courland, south of the Western Dvina, became an autonomous duchy under the suzerainty of the Lithuanian sovereign; and Livonia north of the river was incorporated into Lithuania.
	www.latvia-usa.org /hisoflatbrie.html (2076 words)

	Places of interest,Brest,Gomel,Vibetsk
		In 1795 Brest was returned to Russia, the town was transformed into a fortress for defence of the western boards of Russia in 1836 and it was transferred from the banks of the Bug to the Muhavets River.
		It was built on the high bank of the Western Dvina River, where the Vitsba and the Luches Rivers flow into it.
		It is on the right bank of the Western Dvina River.
	www.belarus.org.uk /placesofinterest.html (1220 words)

	Western Dvina — FactMonster.com
		Dvina, river, Russia, Belarus, and Latvia - Dvina or Western Dvina,Ger.
		Gulf of Riga - Riga, Gulf of, eastern arm of the Baltic Sea, bordering on Estonia and on Latvia.
		Latgale - Latgale or Latgallia, region and former province, in Latvia, N of the Western Dvina River.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0920283.html (79 words)

	Dzwinsk - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Dzwinsk
		City in eastern Latvia on the River Daugava (Western Dvina), 175 km/109 mi southeast of Riga;; population (1992 est) 129,000.
		A fortress of the Teutonic Knights from 1278, it became the capital of Polish Livonia (a former independent region until 1583, comprising most of present-day Latvia and Estonia).
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Dzwinsk (155 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Dvina
		Kholmogory, village, NW European Russia, SE of Arkhangelsk and at the mouth of the Northern Dvina River.
		350,000), Belarusian Vitsyebsk, capital of Vitebsk region, N Belarus, on the Western Dvina River.
		It is a river port and large railroad junction in an agricultural district.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Dvina&StartAt=11 (360 words)

	Tsentralno LesnoyZapovednik
		The zapovednik is halfway between Moscow and St Petersburg, in the western part of Tverskaya Oblast.
		From the middle ages to the end of the 18th century, the region where the zapovednik is situated today constituted the border of ancient Russia.
		In order to guarantee the ecological integrity of the delicate muskeg ecosystems, which formed over millions of years, the entire area of muskeg bogs around the zapovednik should be granted fully protected status.
	www.wild-russia.org /bioregion2/2-tsentralno/2_tseles.htm (1749 words)

	Vitebsk
		One thoroughfare, Smolenskaya, crossed a small confluent of the Dvina, the Viluika, and led to the main square with a sobor (cathedral) and court house; from the square the fashionable Zamkovaya Street turned past the city garden and crossed the bridge over the Western Dvina with a broad view in both directions.
		It was May 29, 1895 according to the Julian calendar; in Western Europe and the Americas it was June 10.
		The synagogue was situated in a large garden on the quay of the South Dvina.
	www.varchive.org /dy/vitebsk.htm (4748 words)

	Belarus - Atlapedia Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It is bound by Poland and Lithuania to the west, Russia to the northeast and east, Ukraine to the south and Latvia to the northwest.
		The country occupies the western extremities of the East European Plain within the basins of the Dnieper, Zapadnaia Dvina and Neman Rivers.
		The principal rivers are the Western Dvina, Bevezina, Dnepr, Pripyat (Pripet), Neman, Bug and the Sozh.
	www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/belarus.htm (1647 words)

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		While Russian economists are reluctant to take the burden of Belarusian economy, Russian politicians and especially neo-communists, build long-term strategic plans of expanding of the new Russian empire and oppose NATO and the West as a new military entity.
		The larger part of Belarus is a lowland, drained by the Dnepr, the Western Dvina, the Pripyat and the Nieman.
		Some western commentators havelabelled the country "Europe’s last dictatorship" and there are accusations of a elite death squad used against opposition politicians.
	www.lycos.com /info/belarus--western-belarus.html (568 words)

	Encyclopædia Britannica Australia -
		It lies along the Western Dvina River at the latter's confluence with the Luchesa River.
		It rises on the eastern slopes of the Ikat Mountains near the town of Bagdarin in Buryatiya and flows in a generally northerly direction to join the Lena in...
		It is situated on the western side of Vitoria Island, in Espirito Santo Bay.
	www.britannica.com.au /britannica_browse/v/v21.html (1457 words)

	Russia Text: Chapter XXXVIII - Territorial Expansion And Foreign Policy
		Her western neighbours, were like herself, animated with that tendency to national expansion which I have above described; and for a time it seemed doubtful who should ultimately possess the vast plains of Eastern Europe.
		In close connection with Western Europe, they had been able to adopt many of the improvements which had recently been made in the art of war, and they already possessed the rich valley of the Dnieper.
		Now, when it had become evident that the Western Powers would not prevent the realisation of the Russian scheme, she determined to intervene energetically, and to stake her national existence on the result.
	www.enotes.com /russia-text/73819 (6765 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In that of the Northern Dvina, which gravitates towards Archangel, the grain, to the extent of 5 million poods, is transported by road in winter to the landing stages of the Northern Dvina and floated, down to Archangel: V2 goes in local consumption, and '/a are exported abroad.
		In the central regions, comprising 6 flsoil provinces, and 6 industrial provinces, the grain is transported over the railways, and on the rivers Oka, Oopa and Msta, from south to north, principally towards Moscow and thence also to the ports of the Baltic.
		Finally, in the western region, consisting of the Baltic, White Russian, Lithuanian and Polish provinces, the trade also gravitates towards the Baltic ports.
	memory.loc.gov /service/gc/gcmisc/mtfgc/0013a/2790272.txt (270 words)

	Russian Topography
		The Bug River flows for 480 miles (770km), rising in the Volhynian-Podolian hills in the western Ukraine.
		The Daugava or Western Dvina is a river rising in the Valdai Hills flowing through Russia and Belarus, to drain into the Gulf of Riga, an arm of the Baltic Sea at Riga in Latvia.
		The region forms the watershed of the upper Volga, the western Dvina, and the Dnepr rivers and also of the rivers that flow into Lake Ilmen.
	www.theeasternfront.co.uk /russiantopography.htm (2804 words)

	Art Gallery : Artwork
		The Center Army Group was given from 51 to 62 divisions and ordered to surround the Soviet forces defending the line of the Western Dvina and Dnieper Rivers around Orsha, Smolensk, and Vitebsk.
		On 10 July the German Second and Third Panzer Armies reached the Dnieper and Western Dvina, but their Ninth and Second Armies were lagging far behind.
		The significance of the Smolensk Operation is that the Soviet counterattacks and stubborn defense of Smolensk delayed the German strategic offensive and forced the redeployment of significant forces from other axes, such as the Third Panzer Group, which was diverted from the Leningrad axis.
	www.gallery-worldwide.com /cmItem.jsp?id=4028&view=OFFR (3465 words)

	Dvina - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Dvina (German, Düna), name of two rivers, eastern and north-eastern Europe.
		White Sea (Russian, Beloye More), arm of the Barents Sea, forming an indentation in the coast of north-western Russia, and partly enclosed on the...
		Daugava, also Western Dvina (Russian, Zapadnaya Dvina), river in north-eastern Europe, which rises in the Valday Hills in north-western Russia and...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Dvina.html (80 words)

	Vitebsk (Витебск) - Belarus (витебск)
		Vitebsk (Viciebs or Witebsk) is a Belarussian city situated on the North-East of the Belarus in the land of glacier lakes on the picturesque banks of the three rivers: the Zakhodnyaya Dzvina (in Russian - Zapadnaya Dvina, in old Belarusian -Rubon, in Latvian - Daugava) river, the Vitba and the Luchesa river.
		On July 15, 1410 a troop of armed Vitebsk citizens took part in a glorious battle near Grunwald (in Eastern Prussia) where united army of the Grand Duche of Lithuania, the Polish Kingdom and volunteers from the Czech Kingdom won the army of German knights (Tevton Order).
		The dramatic page in the town's history is its people's revolt of 1623 when they overthrew and drowned in the Zapadnaya Dvina the odious Iosafat Kuntsevich who was trying to put the Unia yoke upon the people.
	www.vitebsk.com (897 words)

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