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Encyclopedia Britannica



NIKOPOL

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 692 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NEW-NUM
NIKOPOL , a town of
Russia
 , in the government of Ekaterinoslav, on the right bank of the
Dnieper
 , 70 M. S.S.W. of the town of Ekaterinoslay. It was formerly called Nikitin Rog, and occupies an elongated peninsula between two arms of the
Dnieper
  at a point where its banks are low and marshy, and has been for centuries one of the places where the middle Dniepercan most conveniently be crossed. Its inhabitants, 21,282 in 1900, are Little Russians,
Jews
  and Mennonites, who carry on
agriculture
  and shipbuilding. The old secha, or fortified camp of the Zaporogian Cossacks, brilliantly described in N. V. Gogol's novel Taras Bulba (1834), was situated a little higher up the river. Numbers of
graves
  in the vicinity recall the battles which were fought for the possession of this important strategic point. One of them, close to the town, contained, along with other Scythian antiquities, the well-known
precious
  vase representing the capture of wild horses. Even now Nikopol, which is situated on the
highway
  from Ekaterinoslav to
Kherson
 , is the point where the " salt-
highway
  " of the Chumaks (Little
Russian
  salt-carriers) to the Crimea crosses the Dnieper. Nikopol is, further, one of the
chief
  places on the lower Dnieper for the export of corn, linseed, hemp and wool.


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