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The Svislach (Belarusian: Свіслач, romanized: Śvislač, [1] pronounced [ˈsʲvʲisɫatʂ] ⓘ) or Svisloch (Russian: Свислочь) is a river in Belarus. A right-bank tributary of the river Berezina , the Svislach is 327 kilometres (203 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 5,160 square kilometres (1,990 sq mi).
The Svislach (or Śvislač) [1] (Belarusian: Свíслач, pronounced [ˈsʲvʲisɫatʂ] ⓘ), Polish: Świsłocz), is a river in Grodno Oblast, Belarus, a left tributary of the Neman. [2] A stretch of it runs along the Belarus–Poland border. The source of the river is near the town of Svislach, [2] in the south-west of Grodno Region, Belarus.
Svislach was the former capital of the Svislach principality [] of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.It was the sight of the Svislach Castle, a wooden baroque monument with a moat and rampart, which was originally built in the 12th century, was destroyed and rebuilt, until it was demolished by Soviet authorities. [4]
Name Total, km In Belarus, km Dnieper River: 2145 690 Western Dvina: 1020 328 Neman River: 937 459 Bug River: 831 169 Pripyat River: 761 495 Sozh River: 648
The Svislach River, which flows across the city from the northwest to the southeast, is in the urstromtal, an ancient river valley formed by water flowing from melting ice sheets at the end of the last Ice Age. There are six smaller rivers within the city limits, all part of the Black Sea basin.
It was an open ghetto, and the western border of the ghetto's territory ran near the Svislach River. On November 2, 1942, the ghetto was liquidated when the Jews were sent by train to the Vawkavysk transit camp where many massacres occurred. The remaining Jews, mostly elderly and sick, were killed in the Visnik Forest, just outside Svislach. [2]
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Underground pipes with Niamiha flowing into the Svislach. The Nyamiha or Nemiga (Belarusian: Няміга, [nʲaˈmʲiɣa]; Russian: Немига, [nʲɪˈmʲiɡə] ⓘ) is a river in Minsk. Today it is contained within a fabricated culvert. It discharges into the Svislach.