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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 Bóbr (Czech: Bobr, German: Bober, German pronunciation ⓘ) is a river which carries water through the north of the Czech Republic and the southwest of Poland. It is a left tributary of the Oder. [1] Its Polish name translates directly to 'beaver'.
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."
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 ...
Poland has deployed soldiers to help clean up the Oder and an association of fishermen in Zielona Gora, a city in western Poland, said Friday it was suspending fishing in the river due to the ...
The terms river morphology and its synonym stream morphology are used to describe the shapes of river channels and how they change in shape and direction over time. The morphology of a river channel is a function of a number of processes and environmental conditions, including the composition and erodibility of the bed and banks (e.g., sand, clay, bedrock); erosion comes from the power and ...
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.
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