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Dnipro. Dnipro[a] is Ukraine 's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. [4][5][6][7] It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, 391 km (243 mi) [8] southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnipro River, after which its name is derived. Dnipro is the administrative centre of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
The history of Dnipro starts with the human settlement of the city, which is first attested in the Neolithic period. In the Antiquity, the area of the future city was ruled by Scythians and a number of other tribes. In the Middle Ages, an Orthodox monastery existed on one of the islands on the Dneper, which now lays in the city borders.
The Dnieper (/(d ə) ˈ n iː p ər / (də)-NEE-pər, also called Dnepr or Dnipro (/ d ə ˈ n iː p r oʊ / də-NEE-proh), [a] is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea.
Dnipro strikes (2022–present) Coordinates: 48°28′03″N 35°02′24″E. Dnipro strikes. Part of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure. Destruction of an apartment building due to Russian shelling of 14 January 2023. Location.
FC Dnipro. Football Club Dnipro (Ukrainian: Футбо́льний Клуб «Дніпро́», IPA: [d (j) n (j) iˈprɔ] ⓘ) was a Ukrainian football club based in Dnipro. The club played its last season in the 2018–19 Ukrainian Amateur League. The club was owned by Ukrainian businessman Ihor Kolomoyskyi. In 2018, FC Dnipro was forced into ...
Dnieper campaign (2022–present) Dnieper campaign. Part of the Southern Ukraine campaign in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Date. 1 September 2022 – present. (1 year, 11 months, 4 weeks and 2 days) Location. Dnieper (Dnipro) river delta, Kherson Oblast, Mykolaiv Oblast and Zaporizhia Oblast. Result.
The Dnipropetrovsk Oblast is located by most part in eastern Ukraine (like Dnipro Raion and other eastern more raions), though it has some parts in central (like Kamianske Raion) and southern (Nikopol Raion) Ukraine. The area of the oblast (31,974 km 2) comprises about 5.3% of the total area of the country. Its longitude from north to south is ...
Dnieper Ukraine. The term Dnieper Ukraine[1] (Ukrainian: Наддніпрянщина, romanized: Naddniprianshchyna, lit. 'over Dnieper land'), usually refers to territory on either side of the middle course of the Dnieper River. The Ukrainian name derives from nad‑ (prefix: "above, over") + Dnipró ("Dnieper") + ‑shchyna (suffix denoting ...