For Nikopol in Bulgaria see
Nikopol, Bulgaria. Nikopol is a city in
Ukraine, in the
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, on the right bank of
Dnieper river, about 100 km south-west of
Dnipropetrovsk. It has about 128,900 inhabitants (
2006 estimate
[1]).The
1911 edition of
Encyclopædia Britannica gave the following description of Nikopol: Nikopol is a town of
Ukraine, in the government of
Ekaterinoslav, on the right bank of the
Dnieper, 70 miles S.S.W. of the town of
Ekaterinoslav. 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 Dnieper can most conveniently be crossed.
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