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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 West German definition of the "de jure" borders of Germany was based on the determinations of the Potsdam Agreement, which placed the German territories (as of 31 December 1937) east of the Oder–Neisse line "under the administration of the Polish State" while "the final delimitation of the western frontier of Poland should await the peace ...
The Eastern Neisse, [1] also known by its Polish name of Nysa Kłodzka (German: Glatzer Neiße, Czech: Kladská Nisa), is a river in southwestern Poland, a left tributary of the Oder, with a length of 188 km (21st longest) and a basin area of 4,570 km 2 (3,742 in Poland). [2] Prior to World War II it was part of Germany.
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.
Silesia is situated along the Oder River, with the Sudeten Mountains extending across the southern border. The region contains many historical landmarks and UNESCO World Heritage Sites . It is also rich in mineral and natural resources, and includes several important industrial areas.
The western branch of the Oder River, which separates the island of Usedom from the German mainland, is often also called Peene, but actually is considered a part of the Baltic Sea called the Peenestrom. It is one of three channels connecting the Oder Lagoon with the Bay of Pomerania of the Baltic Sea. (The other two are the Świna and the Dziwna.)
The Opava (Polish: Opawa, German: Oppa) is a river in the Czech Republic, a left tributary of the Oder River. It partly forms the Czech-Polish state border. It flows through the Moravian-Silesian Region in the Czech Republic and along the Opole Voivodeship in Poland.
Oder→ Baltic Sea The river Warta ( / ˈ v ɑːr t ə / VAR -tə , Polish: [ˈvarta] ⓘ ; German : Warthe [ˈvaʁtə] ⓘ ; 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 .