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It is the third longest river located within Poland (after the Vistula and Warta); however, it is the second longest river overall taking into account its total length, including parts in neighbouring countries. [2] The Oder drains a basin of 119,074 square kilometres (45,975 sq mi), 106,043 km 2 (40,943 sq mi) of which are in Poland (89%), [2 ...
The border of Europe and Asia is here defined as from the Kara Sea, along the Ural Mountains and Ural River to the Caspian Sea.While the crest of the Caucasus Mountains is the geographical border with Asia in the south, Georgia, and to a lesser extent Armenia and Azerbaijan, are politically and culturally often associated with Europe; rivers in these countries are therefore included.
All or almost all rivers in Europe have alternative names in different languages. Some rivers have also undergone name changes for political or other reasons. This article provides known alternative names for all major European rivers.
2 River system. 3 References. ... River name Emptying into Total length Length in Poland ... Oder: Baltic Sea: 840 520 726 451 119,074 45,975 106,043
branch of river Oder (from Oder Lagoon) Świna/Swine (in Świnoujście, Poland) Uecker (into Oder Lagoon in Ueckermünde) Oder (into Oder Lagoon near Szczecin, Poland) Lusatian Neisse (Lausitzer Neiße) (near Eisenhüttenstadt)
The German-Polish Border Treaty, signed 14 November 1990, finalizing the Oder–Neisse line as the Polish-German border [88] came into force on 16 January 1992, together with a second one, a Treaty of Good Neighbourship, signed in June 1991, in which the two countries, among other things, recognized basic political and cultural rights for both ...
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 Germany, causing ...
Brandenburg is situated in territory known in antiquity as Magna Germania, which reached to the Vistula river. By the 7th century, Slavic people are believed to have settled in the Brandenburg area. The Slavs expanded from the east, possibly driven from their homelands in present-day Ukraine and perhaps Belarus by the invasions of the Huns and ...