Don River
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The breakaway contingent rumbled through villages and along a road that cut through patches of forest and flat farmland, skirting gulleys carved out by tributaries of the Don River.
From Reuters • Jul. 10, 2023
The German army stood at the gates of Leningrad, on the outskirts of Moscow, and on the Don River.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
Boeck has next to nothing to say, except for a brief footnote, about Sholokhov’s parents and early life in the Don River valley, as “almost all accounts of his childhood are either saccharine or selective.”
From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2019
Herodotus’ was the minority view: Most of his contemporaries put the Europe-Asia border much farther north, where the Black Sea meets the Don River in today’s Russia.
From Slate • Jan. 30, 2017
Not the ravine near our house, but a larger branch of it, farther south, past the brickworks, where the Don River, willow-bordered, junk-strewn and dingy, winds sluggishly toward the lake.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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