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In antiquity, the river was known to the Greeks as the Borysthenes and was part of the Amber Road. Arheimar, a capital of the Goths, was located on the Dnieper, according to the Hervarar saga.
In the three countries through which it flows it has essentially the same name, albeit pronounced differently: (, ) (, ) (, )
, Ukraine.]] The river is mentioned by the Ancient Greek historian Herodotus in the 5th century BC as (), as well as by Strabo; this name is Scythian (cf. Iranian *) and meant "wide land", referring most likely to the Ukrainian steppe. The late Greek and Roman authors called it - and respectively - (dana in Old Persian meant "river"); The name Dnieper probably derives from that Greek word. Its Old East Slavic name used at the time of Kievan Rus' was or , the Huns called it Var, and Bulgars - Buri-Chai. The name in .
The source of the Dnieper is the turf swamps of the Valdai Hills in central Russia, at an elevation of .
Navigation is interrupted each year by freezing in winter, and severe winter storms.
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