Tisza

American  

[ti-so] / ˈtɪ sɒ /

noun

1. a river in S central Europe, rising in the Ukraine and flowing from the Carpathian Mountains along the Romanian border into E Hungary, Slovakia, and Serbia, where it joins the Danube N of Belgrade. 800 miles (1,290 km) long.

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Tisza British  

/ ˈtisɔ /

noun

1. Slavonic and Romanian name: Tisa.  a river in S central Europe, rising in W Ukraine and flowing west, forming part of the border between Ukraine and Romania, then southwest across Hungary into Serbia to join the Danube north of Belgrade

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Example Sentences

Hungarian politics don’t usually matter much to the outside world, but the landslide election victory of Péter Magyar’s Tisza party is different.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

Peter Magyar, the opposition leader whose Tisza party won more than two-thirds of the seats in parliament, is in many ways conservative.

From Slate • Apr. 13, 2026

In each region he visited, Magyar energized a budding grassroots campaign by urging Hungarians to start organizing “citizen circles” made up of Tisza volunteers pushing for change.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

To make those changes to the constitution, he needed a two-thirds majority of 133 seats, and although the final results are not yet in, latest results suggest Tisza is on course for 138.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

The commune is protected from inundations of the Tisza by an enormous dike, but the town, nevertheless, sometimes suffers considerable damage during the spring floods.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various