Nysa (disambiguation)
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Nysa (Polish Nysa, German Neiße, Czech Nisa) is a name of a few rivers and a town in Silesia.
- Lusatian Neisse (Polish Nysa Łużycka, German Lausitzer Neiße, Czech Lužická Nisa) - length: ca. 252 km or 157 miles on the Polish - German border. Rising in the NW of the Czech Republic it flows into the Oder near Gubin in Poland.
- Nysa Kłodzka (German Schlesische Neiße) - length: ca. 182 km or 113 miles. It rises in SW Poland to join the Oder near Brzeg.
- Nysa Szalona - length ca. 51 km, flows into Kaczawa river, which in turns flows into Oder.
Nysa (German Neiße) is since 1945 also a town in Poland, on the Nysa Klodzka river.
See also:
- Nysa
- Rivers of Poland
- Geography of Poland
- Oder-Neisse line
- Nysa (mythology), the mythical land where Dionysus was reared and discovered the entheogen wine