The Vistula is the longest river in which country?
Vistula Vistula The Vistula (; , ) is the longest and largest river in Poland and the 9th longest river in Europe, at in length. The drainage basin area of the Vistula is , of which lies within Poland (54% of its land area). The remainder is in Belarus, Ukraine and Slovakia. The Vistula rises at Barania Góra in the south of Poland, above sea level in the Silesian Beskids (western part of Carpathian Mountains), where it begins with the White Little Vistula ("Biała Wisełka") and the Black Little Vistula ("Czarna Wisełka"). It then continues to flow over the vast Polish
Battle of the Vistula River September papers from a dead German officer disclosed to the Russians that four German Corps, which they believed to be in East Prussia, were now in Silesia. To face the threat from Silesia, the Russians withdrew men from East Prussia and from the front facing the Austro-Hungarians The geographical barrier that separated the bulk of the opposing armies was the Vistula River. The Russian corps marching north to fill the gap moved along the east bank of the Vistula, which protected their left flanks. The troop movements involved both the Southwest Front commanded by Nikolay Iudovich Ivanov and the Northwest