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  2. Oder - Wikipedia

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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 ]

  3. Oder–Neisse line - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Eastern Neisse - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Lusatian Neisse - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Silesia - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Wends - Wikipedia

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    For people living in the medieval Northern Holy Roman Empire and its precursors, especially for the Saxons, a Wend (Wende) was a Slav living in the area west of the River Oder, an area later entitled Germania Slavica, settled by the Polabian Slav tribes (mentioned above) in the north and by others, such as the Sorbs and the Milceni, further ...

  8. Warta - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  9. Oder (Harz) - Wikipedia

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    The Oder rises in the district of Goslar in the heart of the Harz Mountains. Its source is located in the southern part of the Brockenfeld about 1.3 km (0.81 mi) north of the Achtermannshöhe . The river's source is called the Odersprung or "Oder Leap."