Vistula

Vistula (Polish Wisła) is the longest river in Poland. It is 1,047 kilometers (678 miles) long and drains about 192,000 square kilometers (74,000 sq. miles), or almost two thirds of Poland's surface. The Vistula has its source in the south of the country, at Barania Góra (1220m high) in the Beskidy mountains where it starts with White Little Vistula (Biała Wisełka) and Black Little Vistula (Czarna Wisełka). It then continues to flow over the vast Polish plains, passing several large Polish cities along its way, including Cracow, Sandomierz, Warsaw, Plock, Wloclawek, Torun, Swiecie, Tczew and Gdańsk. With a delta and several branches (Leniwka, Przekop, Śmiała Wisła, Martwa Wisła, Nogat and Szkarpawa) it empties into the Vistula Lagoon and Gdansk Bay of the Baltic Sea

History

\nThe name Vistula is probably "Old-European" ("Venedian" ?) and was recorded by Tacitus in 98 AD in his Germania. During that time the Vistula River ran into the Mare Suebicum, which was later called Baltic Sea. According to him, near the delta lived the East Germanic tribes of the Suebi and Burgundians, on both banks the Goths and east of them the Aestii-Prussi, Galindi, Sudauer, Borusci, Veneti, Fenni-Finns, and more. There he described people on the most eastern part of the Mare Suebicum, the Finns. However, Tacitus' knowledge of the different peoples was second-hand at best; as such, it should be taken with the proverbial grain of salt. He also used the term "Germans" not for describing ethnicity, for example when describing Wenets (Veneds, Venets), Peucyns and Fenns he wrote, that he isn't sure if he should call them Germans, since they have settlements and they fight on foot, or rather Sarmats since they have some similar customs to them. Ptolemy also recorded the Germanic(?) tribes at the Vistula River. The Vistula river is only a short portage from the Dnieper River, and thence to the Black Sea. Boats could be rolled from one river to the next there. What later became the city of Kyiv in Ukraine was earlier known by its Gothic name of Danapirstadir "City on the Dnieper". The Baltic Sea-Vistula-Dnieper-Black Sea water route was one of the most ancient trade-routes, the Amber road, on which amber and other items were traded from Northern Europe to Greece, Asia, Egypt, and elsewhere.

Cities

\nList of cities with nearby tributaries\n* Wisla\n* Ustron\n* Skoczow - Brennica\n* Strumien - Krajka\n* Goczalkowice-Zdroj\n* Czechowice-Dziedzice - Biała\n* Brzeszcze\n* Oswiecim - Soła\n* Zator - Skawa\n* Skawina - Skawinka\n* Krakow- Sanka, Rudawka, Pradnik, Dłubnia, Wilga\n* Niepolomice\n* Nowe Brzesko\n* Nowy Korczyn - Nida\n* Szczucin\n* Polaniec - Czarna\n* Baranow Sandomierski - Babolówka\n* Tarnobrzeg\n* Sandomierz - Koprzywianka, Trzesniówka\n* Zawichost\n* Annopol - Sanna\n* Jozefow\n* Solec nad Wisla\n* Kazimierz Dolny - Bystra\n* Pulawy - Kurowka\n* Deblin - Wieprz\n* Magnuszew\n* Wilga - Wilga\n* Gora Kalwaria - Czarna\n* Karczew\n* Otwock - Świder\n* Jozefow - Świder\n* Konstancin-Jeziorna - Jeziorka\n* Warsaw - kanał Żerański\n* Lomianki\n* Legionowo\n* Nowy Dwor Mazowiecki - Narew with Bug\n* Zakroczym\n* Czerwinsk nad Wisla\n* Wyszogrod - Bzura\n* Plock - Słupianka, Brzeźnica\n* Dobrzyn nad Wisla\n* Wloclawek - Zgłowiączka\n* Nieszawa - Mień\n* Ciechocinek\n* Torun - Drwęca, Bacha\n* Solec Kujawski\n* Bydgoszcz - Brda\n* Chelmno\n* Swiecie - Wda\n* Grudziadz\n* Nowe\n* Gniew - Wierzyca\nLeniwka branch:\n* Tczew\n* Gdańsk - Motława, Radunia, Potok Oliwski\nNogat branch:\n* Malbork

Right tributaries

\nList of right tributaries with a nearby city\n* Brennica - Skoczow\n* Iłownica\n* Biała - Czechowice-Dziedzice\n* Soła\n* Skawa - Zator\n* Skawinka - Skawina\n* Wilga - Krakow\n* Drwinka\n* Raba\n* Gróbka\n* Uszwica\n* Kisielina\n* Dunajec\n* Breń\n* Brnik\n* Wisłoka\n* Babulówka - Baranow Sandomierski\n* Trzesniówka - Sandomierz\n* Łęg - Sandomierz\n* San\n* Sanna - Annopol\n* Wyżnica - Józefów\n* Chodelka\n* Bystra - Kazimierz Dolny\n* Kurówka - Pulawy\n* Wieprz - Deblin\n* Okrzejka\n* Promnik\n* Wilga - Wilga\n* Świder - Otwock, Jozefow\n* Kanał Żerański - Warsaw\n* Narew with Bug and Wkra - Nowy Dwor Mazowiecki\n* Mołtawa\n* Słupianka - Plock\n* Brzeźnica - Plock\n* Skrwa - Plock\n* Mień - Nieszawa\n* Drwęca - Torun\n* Bacha - Torun\n* Struga\n* Osa - Grudziadz\n* Liwa

Left tributaries

\nList of left tributaries with a nearby city\n* Krajka - Strumien\n* Pszczynka\n* Gostynia\n* Pszemsza - Chelmek\n* Chech\n* Rudno\n* Sanka - Krakow\n* Rudawa - Krakow\n* Prądnik - Krakow\n* Dłubnia - Krakow\n* Roporek - Nowe Brzesko\n* Szreniawa\n* Nidzica\n* Nida - Nowy Korczyn\n* Strumień\n* Czarna - Polaniec\n* Koprzywianka - Sandomierz\n* Opatówka\n* Kamienna\n* Krępianka - Solec nad Wisla\n* Iłżanka\n* Zwoleńka\n* Plewka - Janowiec\n* Zagożdzonka - Kozienice\n* Radomka\n* Pilica - Warka\n* Czarna - Gora Kalwaria\n* Jeziorka - Konstancin-Jeziorna\n* Bzura - Wyszogrod\n* Skrwa - Plock\n* Zgłowiączka - Wloclawek\n* Tążyna\n* Zielona\n* Brda - Bydgoszcz\n* Wda - Swiecie\n* Wierzyca - Gniew\n* Motława - Gdańsk\n* Radunia - Gdańsk

Related topics

• Rivers of Poland\n* Geography of Poland

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