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| | Oder River -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! |
 | | The Oder is connected with the Vistula, Poland's largest river, by means of a water route utilizing the Warta and Notec rivers, together with the Bydgoszcz Canal, and is tied in with the waterway system of western Europe by way of the OderSpree and OderHavel canals in eastern Germany. |
 | | From the river's source and over the greater part of its course, the Oder flows in a generally southeastnorthwest direction; only from the junction with the Neisse (Polish: Nysa Luzycka) River does the northward trend toward the Baltic commence. |
 | | The principal left-bank tributaries are the Opava of the Czech Republic and the Osobloga, Nysa Klodzka, Olawa, Sleza, Bystrzyca, Kaczawa, Bóbr, and Neisse of Poland; from the east the main tributaries are the Ole of the Czech Republic and the Klodnica, Mala Panew, Strobrawa, Widawa, Barycz, Obrzyca, Warta, Mysla, and Ina of Poland. |
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