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Vistula

[ vis-choo-luh ]

noun

  1. a river in Poland, flowing N from the Carpathian Mountains past Warsaw into the Baltic near Danzig. About 650 miles (1,050 km) long.


Vistula

/ ˈvɪstjʊlə /

noun

  1. a river in central and N Poland, rising in the Carpathian Mountains and flowing generally north and northwest past Warsaw and Torun, then northeast to enter the Baltic via an extensive delta region. Length: 1090 km (677 miles) Polish nameWisla German nameWeichsel
  2. Vistula Lagoon
    a shallow lagoon on the SW coast of the Baltic Sea, between Danzig and Kaliningrad, crossed by the border between Poland and Russia German nameFrisches Haff Polish nameWislany Zalew Russian nameVislinsky Zaliv
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

Until the warheads were taken back to Russia in 1990 as the Soviet Union unraveled, they were part of the Vistula Program, a top-secret deployment of nuclear weapons in Poland that began in the 1960s.

Greenpeace Poland also warned that the situation may reoccur this year and also hit Poland’s largest river, the Vistula, if the government and the coalmining industry don’t take immediate steps to counter the problem.

He flew to Poland with his son and a portable folding kayak to navigate the Vistula River and meet with anti-government leaders undetected.

A skyline of skyscrapers is reflected in the Vistula river in the evening in Warsaw, Poland August 22, 2022.

From Reuters

Mark was given a room in a college dorm not far from the Vistula River, which flows through Warsaw.

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