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Neisse River

The Neisse (Polish Nysa, German Neiße, Czech Nisa) is a name of a few rivers in Silesia.

Rivers

1. Lusatian Neisse (Polish Nysa Łużycka, German Lausitzer Neiße, Czech Lužická Nisa) - length: ca. 225 km or 140 miles on the Polish - German border. Rising in the NW of the Czech Republic it flows into the Oder near Gubin in Poland.
2. Nysa Kłodzka - length: ca. 244 km or 159 miles. It rises in SW Poland to join the Oder near Brzeg.
3. Nysa Szalona - length ca. 51 km, flows into Kaczawa river, which in turns flows into Oder.

Nysa is also a town in Poland, on the Nysa Klodzka river.

See also

• Rivers of Poland
• Geography of Poland
• Oder-Neisse line
• Nysa (mythology), the mythical land where Dionysus was reared and discovered the entheogen wine

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