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Russian Poland, Lithuania and Courland was officially yielded on terms of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (marked in red).. Vistula Land, [1] [2] also known as Vistula Country (Russian: Привислинский край, romanized: Privislinskiy kray; Polish: Kraj Nadwiślański), [3] was the name applied to the lands of Congress Poland from 1867, following the defeats of the November Uprising ...
The name Vistula first appears in the written record of Pomponius Mela (3.33) in AD 40. Pliny in AD 77 in his Natural History names the river Vistla (4.81, 4.97, 4.100). The root of the name Vistula is often thought to come from Proto-Indo-European *weys-: 'to ooze, flow slowly' (cf. Sanskrit अवेषन् avēṣan "they flowed", Old Norse veisa "slime"), and similar elements appear in ...
King Alfred's translation of Orosius contains a description of Europe which states be eastan Maroara londe is Wisle lond, ⁊ be eastan þæm sint Datia, þa þe iu wæron Gotan ('To the east of the Moravians' land is the Vistula land, and to the east of them are the Dacians, that formerly were Goths'.) [7]
The Vistula Spit (Polish: Mierzeja Wiślana; Russian: Балтийская коса, romanized: Baltiyskaya kosa; German: Danziger Nehrung, Frische Nehrung; Low German: Dantzker Nearing) is an aeolian sand spit, [1] or peninsular stretch of land, separating Vistula Lagoon from Gdańsk Bay, in the Baltic Sea, with its tip separated from the mainland by the Strait of Baltiysk.
Map of the Western and Eastern Roman empire in the end of the 4th century AD, identifying the location of the Venedae (Veneti) in central and eastern Europe.. Among the Byzantine authors, the Gothic author Jordanes in his work Getica (written in 550 or 551 AD) [7] describes the Veneti as a "populous nation" whose dwellings begin at the sources of the Vistula and occupy "a great expanse of land".
German settlement on abandoned or empty land in Kujawy and Royal Prussia increased as land owners sought to re-populate their lands after the losses of the Great Northern War (1700–1721). [1] Migration up the Vistula, to Płock , Wyszogród , and beyond, continued through the period of the Partitions of Poland by Prussia , Austria-Hungary and ...
Płock (pronounced ⓘ) is a city in central Poland, on the Vistula river, in the Masovian Voivodeship.According to the data provided by GUS on 31 December 2021, there were 116,962 inhabitants in the city. [1]
The region comprises a densely populated agricultural land, with two main towns; historic Kazimierz Dolny, and Annopol. Other towns are Józefów , Bochotnica , Janowiec and Wilków . The Gorge is one of several protected areas designated in the Natura 2000 territory of the European Union's ecological network around the Vistula and Pilica ...