Definition of Nikopol

For Nikopol in Bulgaria see Nikopol, Bulgaria.

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.