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The Oder (/ ˈ oʊ d ər / OH-dər, German: ⓘ; Czech, Lower Sorbian and Polish: Odra; [a] Upper Sorbian: Wódra) is a river in Central Europe. It is Poland's second-longest river and third-longest within its borders after the Vistula and its largest tributary the Warta . [ 1 ]
The river Warta (/ ˈ v ɑːr t ə / VAR-tə, Polish: ⓘ; German: Warthe ⓘ; Latin: Varta) rises in central Poland and meanders greatly through the Polish Plain in a north-westerly direction to flow into the Oder at Kostrzyn nad Odrą on Poland's border with Germany.
The Oder–Neisse line (German: Oder-Neiße-Grenze, Polish: granica na Odrze i Nysie Łużyckiej) is an unofficial term for the modern border between Germany and Poland. The line generally follows the Oder and Lusatian Neisse rivers, meeting the Baltic Sea in the north.
The river was a motivations to found Gubin as a craftmanship and trading port in the 13th Century. [7] Since the 1945 Potsdam Agreement in the aftermath of World War II, the river has partially demarcated the German-Polish border (along the Oder–Neisse line). The German population east of the river was expelled from Poland to Germany.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's prime minister said Friday that “huge amounts of chemical waste” were probably dumped intentionally into the Oder River, which runs along the border with ...
Bydgoszcz Canal (German: Bromberger Kanal; Polish: Kanał Bydgoski) is a canal between the cities of Bydgoszcz and Nakło nad Notecią in Poland.It is 24.7 km long and connects the Vistula river with the Oder river, through the Brda and Noteć rivers (the latter ending in the Warta river which itself ends in Oder).
Opole (Polish: ⓘ; Silesian: Ôpole; [a] Silesian German: Uppeln) [b] is a city located in southern Poland on the Oder River and the historical capital of Upper Silesia.With a population of approximately 127,387 as of the 2021 census, [1] it is the capital of Opole Voivodeship (province) and the seat of Opole County.
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