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

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