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The name Vistula first appears in the written record of Pomponius Mela (3.33) in AD 40. Pliny in AD 77 in his Natural History names the river Vistla (4.81, 4.97, 4.100). The root of the name Vistula is often thought to come from Proto-Indo-European *weys-: 'to ooze, flow slowly' (cf. Sanskrit अवेषन् avēṣan "they flowed", Old Norse veisa "slime"), and similar elements appear in ...
Wisła is the Polish name for the Vistula River, which has its source in the mountains near the town. It is the only town in Poland with a majority Lutheran population (as of 2006 roughly two-thirds of the population were Protestant , [ 2 ] which is a drop from 94,4% in 1900 [ 3 ] ).
Wisłoka in Mielec. The Wisłoka [viˈswɔ.ka] ⓘ is a river in south-eastern Poland, and a tributary of Vistula River.It is 173 kilometres (107 miles) long and has a basin area of 4,100 square kilometres (1,583 sq mi). [1]
River name Emptying into Total length Length in Poland Total basin area Basin area in Poland km mi km mi km 2 sq mi km 2 sq mi; Vistula: Baltic Sea: 1,022 635 1,022 635 193,690 74,780 168,868 65,200 Oder: Baltic Sea: 840 520 726 451 119,074 45,975 106,043 40,943 Warta: Oder: 795 494 795 494 54,520 21,050 54,520 21,050 Bug: Narew: 774 481 590 ...
The deepest river of Ukraine is Dniester. In its mid stream between Pyzhniv village and Mohyliv-Podilsky through the Dniester canyon (Podillia Upland) the river narrows to 1.5 km (0.93 mi) in width and deepens up to 10 m (33 ft). The biggest water amount among distributaries is carried by the Chilia branch.
The Śmiała Wisła (Polish pronunciation: [ˈɕmjawa ˈviswa]) is a distributary river branch of the Vistula in northern Poland that flows to the Gdańsk Bay. The Śmiała Wisła is a western border of Sobieszewo Island and was created during the 1840 flooding when it became a new mouth of the Vistula. Literally it means Daring Vistula.
The Martwa Wisła (Polish: [ˈmartfa ˈviswa]; German: Tote Weichsel; both literally "dead Vistula") is a river, which is one of the branches of the Vistula, flowing through the city of Gdańsk in northern Poland. It got its name when this branch of the river became increasingly moribund.
The lagoon is a mouth of a few branches of the Vistula River, notably Nogat and Szkarpawa, and of the Pregolya River.. The lagoon is split between Poland (including the localities of Elbląg, Tolkmicko, Frombork, and Krynica Morska) and Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast (including the localities of Kaliningrad, Baltiysk, and Primorsk).