DNIESTER, nester (Russian, Drumm, dnyes't6r; the ancient TYRAS ; later or DANASTUS), a large river of Europe, which has its source in a lake in the Carpathian Moun tains, in Austrian Galicia. Near Khotin it crosses the Russian frontier and flows in a southeastern direction generally with many windings. It forms the boundaries between Bessarabia and Podolia and Kherson. It flows into the Black Sea between Ovidiopol and Ackerman. Its length is over 850 miles, 360 of which are in Austria. Its basin is about 30,000 square miles in extent; is mostly high land. There are rapids at Yampol. The chief affluents of the Dniester are the Screth and the Stry. Modern improvements have made the river navigable from Khotin to the sea and its annual volume of commerce is very great, con sisting for the most part of grain and lumber. It abounds in fish which are also a source of wealth and the catching of which gives a means of livelihood to thousands.
DOAB, (Sanskrit, ((Two a name in Hindu applied indiscriminately to any tract of country between two rivers, but especially to the tract between the Ganges and the Jumna in the United Provinces. It is 500 miles long and 55 broad. It is the greatest wheat-producing area in the United Provinces. Its rich alluvial soil is irrigated by three canals. Other similar tracts have their distinctive name, as the Bari Doab, between the Bias and Ghara and the Ravi; the Rechna Doab, between the Ravi and the Chenab; the Jech Doab, between the Jhelum and the Chenab, the Sind Sagar Doab, between the Indus and the Jhelum. The canal parallel to the Jumna from Delhi to Fyzabad is called the Doab Canal.