Samar ( uk, Самар, uk, Стара Самара, Old Samara) is a city neighborhood of the

Samarskyi District Samarskyi District ( uk, Самарський район) is an urban district of the city of Dnipro, in southern Ukraine. It is located at the confluence of the Dnieper and Samara rivers in the eastern and southeastern parts of the city. History ...

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) of the

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Municipality in southern

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. It is located at the mouth of

Samara River The Samara ( rus, Сама́ра, p=sɐˈmarə) is a river in Russia and a left-bank tributary of the Volga. It flows into the larger river at the city of Samara. Its largest tributary is the Bolshoy Kinel. It is long, and its drainage basin ...

on its right bank where the river enters

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History

The exact year of foundation of the city is still researched. Archeologic founds suggest that the town existed in 1524.Dnipro: pages of the city's history. The first page is Cossack
dnipro.libr.dp.ua (21 September 2017) In 2011

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stated that archaeologists of the

Dnipro National University Oles Honchar Dnipro National University (DNU, uk, Дніпровський національний університет імені Олеся Гончара) is an establishment of higher education in Dnipro, Ukraine. It was founded in 1918. ...

discovered artifacts dated around 1520s. Iryna Reva, Oleh Rypan.
The Old Samar (Cтара Cамар)
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. 18 July 2011 The earliest mentioning of Samar as a settlement in Lower Dnieper region is a royal edict of the

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in 1576. It was a river port administrated by local Cossacks. In 1668 at its location was built Novobohorodytska (Bohorodytska) fortress with an area of . Yulia Ratsybarska.
"Dnipro is a city of three fortresses", not a "City of Sovok" («Дніпро – місто трьох фортець», а не «місто совка»)
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. 28 September 2016 It is the only large settlement of the

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on Ukraine's

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s which survived without significant destruction."Dnipro is a city of three fortresses", not "a city of scoops"
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(28 September 2016) The remains the fortress occupy an area of almost 70 hectares. According to scientists, the fortress did not appear out of nowhere: more than 1,700 years ago there was a settlement of an ancient tribe. In 2001, by a resolution of the

Government of Ukraine The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine ( uk, Кабінет Міністрів України, translit=Kabinet Ministriv Ukrainy; shortened to CabMin), commonly referred to as the Government of Ukraine ( uk, Уряд України, ''Uriad Ukrai ...

, the remains of the Novobohorodytska fortress was declared a historical monument of national importance.

References

External links

* Iryna Shovkovets.
Cossacks' city on Samara (Козацьке місто на Самарі)
'. Ukrayina Moloda. 31 October 2008.

UNIAN The UNIAN or Ukrainian Independent Information Agency of News ( uk, Українське Незалежне Інформаційне Агентство Новин, УНІАН, translit=Ukrayins'ke Nezalezhne Informatsiyne Ahentstvo Novyn) is a ...

. 1 June 2017 Neighborhoods of Dnipro Yekaterinoslav Governorate {{Dnipropetrovsk-geo-stub