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... Vistula River ( W.C.S. ) The Vistula ( Polish Wisła ) is the largest river of Poland and of the drainage basin of the Baltic Sea . Tenth in size among the rivers of Europe , it is a waterway of great importance to the nations of eastern ...
... Vistula River ( W.C.S. ) The Vistula ( Polish Wisła ) is the largest river of Poland and of the drainage basin of the Baltic Sea . Tenth in size among the rivers of Europe , it is a waterway of great importance to the nations of eastern ...
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... Vistula has been turned into a fully improved waterway . The 19th- century Bydgoszcz Canal , following an ancient glacial valley , links the Vistula Basin with that of the River Oder , second largest of Polish rivers . Also near Byd ...
... Vistula has been turned into a fully improved waterway . The 19th- century Bydgoszcz Canal , following an ancient glacial valley , links the Vistula Basin with that of the River Oder , second largest of Polish rivers . Also near Byd ...
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... Vistula at Płock in order to be able to attack Warsaw from the rear when his Polish counter- part , Piłsudski , divined his intention and , in the night of August 5-6 , 1920 , issued the order that saved Poland : in the south the ...
... Vistula at Płock in order to be able to attack Warsaw from the rear when his Polish counter- part , Piłsudski , divined his intention and , in the night of August 5-6 , 1920 , issued the order that saved Poland : in the south the ...
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