Neisse
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noun
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Polish name: Nysa. Also called: Glatzer Neisse. a river in SW Poland, rising on the northern Czech border, and flowing northeast to join the Oder near Brzeg. Length: about 193 km (120 miles)
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Also called: Lusatian Neisse. a river in E Europe, rising near Liberec in the Czech Republic and flowing north to join the Oder: forms part of the German–Polish border. Length: 225 km (140 miles)
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LEKNICA, Poland — The woman busing tables at a restaurant in this town just across the Neisse River from Germany seemed different from the other people working there.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2022
"One of the most important factors for the economics of a project like this is sticking to the original schedule," says Eric Neisse, a deputy manager at Areva-China.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 28, 2010
The chief sticking point in Polish-German relations is the German claim to its former territories east of the Oder and Neisse Rivers, a territory about the size of Virginia.
From Time Magazine Archive
After World War II, the Soviet Union bit off a large chunk of eastern Poland and compensated for it by moving Poland's border with Germany westward to the banks of the Oder and Neisse rivers.
From Time Magazine Archive
A second interview, at Neustadt in 1770, clinched the relations already contracted at Neisse.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Robert Black
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