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- For Nikopol in Bulgaria see Nikopol, Bulgaria.
Nikopol (Ukrainian: Нікополь) 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.
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.
