Pripet

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Prip·et (pr

t) or Pri·pyat (-y

t) or Pry·pyat' (-y

ch)

A river, about 708 km (440 mi) long, of northern Ukraine flowing generally eastward through the Pripet Marshes, a forested, swampy area, to the Dnieper River north of Kiev.

Pripet [ˈpriːpɪt]

(Placename) a river in E Europe, rising in the NW Ukraine and flowing northeast into Belarus across the Pripet Marshes (the largest swamp in Europe), then east into the Dnieper River. Length: about 800 km (500 miles) Russian name Pripyat [ˈprɪpjətj]

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Prypyat' river Styr			On the rise of German geopolitical thinking and reclamation schemes for the Pripet Marshes in the 1930s: David Blackbourn, The Conquest of Nature: Water, Landscape, and the Making of Modern Germany (New York: W. Movements of peoples and the Genesis of "Soviet spaces" by Thurston, Gary / Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table 48 The Pripet Marshes cover tens of thousands of square miles on the border of which two European countries? POST PUZZLER: 50 for Fun; Phil Brown's trivia quiz by Daily Post (Liverpool, England) Then followed the piston blows of history: just as the Slavs coming from the Pripet Marshes had hurled themselves into the Balkans so came the Turks into Serbia and Bosnia. Understanding the Balkan conflict by Sinclair-Loutit, K.W.C. / Contemporary Review			Prionace glauca Prionotus Prionotus carolinus prior prior permission prior probability prior restraint prior to priorate prioress prioritise prioritization prioritize priority priority designator priority intelligence requirements priority message priority national intelligence objectives Priority of debts priority of immediate mission requests priority processing priority system for mission requests for tactical reconnaissance Priorly Priorship priory Pripet Pris prisage Priscian Priscillianism Priscillianist Priscoan Priscoan aeon Priscoan eon prise Priser prisere prism Prism glass prism spectroscope Prism telescope prismatic Prismatic borax Prismatic cleavage Prismatic colors Prismatic compass Prismatic spectrum Prismatically prismatoid Prismatoidal prismoid			Priority-based Control Engineering Priority-Oriented Demand Assignment Priority-Weighted Fair Queuing Priority/Primary Priority/Urgency/Justification/Category priorly priorly priorly Priorov, Nikolai Priorov, Nikolai Nikolaevich priors priors priors priorship priorship priorship priorships priorships priorships priory priory Priory of Sion Priory of St. James of Jerusalem Priory Park Preservation Society Priozernyi Priozersk Priozersk (Russia) Priozyorsk PRIP Prip, John Pripet Pripet Marshes Pripet River Pripev Pripiat Pripiat Marshes Pripisnye Krestiane Pripjet marshes PRIPP Pripsen Pripsen Pripyat Pripyat Pripyat Marshes Pripyat River Pripyet PrIr PRIRA Prirechnyi Priroda Prirodoslovni Muzej Rijeka Prirodoslovno-Matematicki Fakultet PRIROUTE Pris Pris Pris PRISA PRISA PRISAA Prisage Prisage

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