In the Demblin area, battle field hospitals were separated from enemy forces only by the Vistula. |
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We organize bonfires, grilled suppers, trips by britzkas, and cruises along the Vistula. |
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The wily battery commander had hammered his guns into the frozen Vistula River. |
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His dominions included all the lands from the Baltic to the country beyond the Carpathians, and from the River Oder to the provinces beyond the Vistula. |
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We were reminded by our historic guide of the contribution of the Mennonites who came to these lands and built the canal system to reclaim the land of the Vistula River Delta. |
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When the Vistula line was stormed in January 1945, there were no fewer than 6.7 million men in the Soviet forces between the Baltic and the Adriatic. |
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The term is mostly used to denominate the territory between the Schelde to Vistula and from the Danube to the Moravian Gate. |
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In contrast to Strabo, he knows that the Goths live around the Vistula, but these are definitely Germans. |
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That the Balts lived east of the Vistula from remote prehistoric times is unquestioned. |
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These mountains, stretching from near the upper Elbe to the headwaters of the Vistula, he calls the Askibourgian mountains. |
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It extended from the Danube in the south to the Baltic Sea, and from the Rhine in the west to the Vistula. |
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Germania extended from the Rhine eastward to the Vistula river, and from the Danube river northward to the Baltic Sea. |
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The Lugii are mentioned by Strabo, Tacitus and Ptolemy as a large group of tribes living between the Vistula and the Oder. |
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The most likely scenario is that they were originally a group of East Germanic tribes, originally resident in the lower Vistula river valley. |
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According to Agrippa, Dacia was limited by the Baltic Ocean in the North and by the Vistula in the West. |
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In writing about the Vistula River and its peoples, Ptolemy uses the Greek spelling Ouistoula. |
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The history of the River Vistula and her valley spans over 2 million years. |
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In warmer periods, when the ice sheet retreated, the Vistula deepened and widened its valley. |
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At present, along the Vistula valley, erosion of the banks and collecting of new deposits are still occurring. |
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As the principal river of Poland, the Vistula is also located in the centre of Europe. |
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The climate of the Vistula valley, its plants, animals and its very character changed considerably during the process of glacial retreat. |
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Ptolemy, in the 2nd century AD, would describe the Vistula as the border between Germania and Sarmatia. |
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It was the first waterway in Central Europe to provide a direct link between the two major rivers, the Vistula and the Neman. |
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Based on archeological and linguistic findings, it has been postulated that these settlers moved northward along the Vistula river. |
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This however contradicts another hypothesis supported by some researchers saying the Veleti moved westward from the Vistula delta. |
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Many Polish legends are connected with the Vistula and the beginnings of Polish statehood. |
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Wanda however committed suicide, drowning in the Vistula river, to ensure he would not invade her country again. |
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The Order had inherited Gniew from Sambor II, thus gaining a foothold on the left bank of the Vistula. |
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Many granaries and storehouses, built in the 14th century, line the banks of the Vistula. |
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Many rivers in the Commonwealth were used for shipping purposes, including the Vistula. |
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However the Soviets let down the Poles, stopping their advance at the Vistula and branding the insurgents as criminals in radio broadcasts. |
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As the periplus was a sort of ship's log, he probably did reach the Vistula. |
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Such gorges, clearly seen in the highland's hummock of the Baltic Stadial, have developed Odra, Vistula, Nemunas, and Dwina rivers, only. |
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They include the major rivers of north Europe, such as the Oder, the Vistula, the Neman, the Daugava and the Neva. |
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The latter assured the envoy that the Vistula River represented the natural borders between French and Russian influence in Europe. |
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The largely straight coastline is indented by the Szczecin Lagoon, the Bay of Puck, and the Vistula Lagoon. |
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The Vistula and the Oder flow into the Baltic Sea, as do numerous smaller rivers in Pomerania. |
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The Vikings, for example, traveled up the Vistula and the Oder in their longships. |
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Primary production and decomposition of organic matter in the epipelagic zone of the Gulf of Gdansk, an estuary of the Vistula. |
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A suction dredge barge on the Vistula River, Warsaw, Poland. |
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Evidently the Sarmatians have conquered westward to the Vistula. |
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That number happens to be the distance from the mouth of the Skagerrak to the mouth of the Vistula, but no source says explicitly where the figure was taken. |
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The Vistula estuary was settled by Slavs in the 7th and 8th century. |
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