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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 ...
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 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 ...
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Although the territory ceded to Poland was roughly equal to the land transferred to the Soviet Union, the area surrounding Ustrzyki Dolne lacked industry, natural resources, and fertile soil. Moreover, it had been depopulated mainly during the 1947 Polish-Soviet Operation Vistula. The prospect of obtaining oil resources in that region was ...
Vistula Germans (German: Weichseldeutsche) are ethnic Germans who had settled in what became known after the 1863 Polish rebellion as the Vistula Territory. This territory, so designated by the ruling Russians of the time, encompassed most of the Vistula river basin of central Poland up to just east of Toruń .
Vistula Land (1815-1915), name for Russian Congress Poland from 1867 to 1915 Vistula Spit , a stretch of land on the Baltic coast Vistula Lagoon , a fresh-water lagoon behind the Vistula Spit