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Dnipro is a major educational centre in Ukraine and is home to two of Ukraine's top-ten universities; the Oles Honchar Dnipro National University and Dnipro Polytechnic National Technical University. The system of high education institutions connects 38 institutions in Dnipro, among them 14 of IV and ІІІ levels of accreditation, and 22 of І ...
Dnieper Ukraine. Coordinates: 49.32°N 32.74°E. Dnieper Ukraine, 17th–18th centuries. 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 ...
The river is also sometimes called by the Russian name Dnepr. The initial D in Dnieper is generally silent when pronounced in English, although it may be sounded: / ˈ n iː p ər / or / d ə ˈ n iː p ər /. It derives from Russian: Днепр, romanized: Dnepr [better source needed] (pre-revolutionary spelling Днѣпръ, Dněpr).
One month after their counteroffensive began, Ukrainian forces have gained significant ground following months of Russia’s advances in the south and east of the country.
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 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 ...
Ukraine is largely absent from the maps of the Turkish manuscript mapping-tradition that flourished during the reign of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror ( r. 1444–1446, 1451–1481 ); the Mediterranean received its own section in world maps, [1] : 5 but typical Turkish maps of the period omitted the Black Sea, and the entire region ...
Dnieper campaign (2022–present) The Dnieper campaign is a series of clashes that are occurring along the river Dnieper (Dnipro) in Kherson Oblast, Ukraine, as part of the fighting in the southern theater of the Russo-Ukrainian War. Specifically, this campaign refers to clashes along the river between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the ...