Neisse river - Definition and Overview

Nysa (Polish Nysa, German Neiße, Czech Nisa) is a name of a few rivers and a town in Silesia.

1. 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.
2. Nysa Kłodzka - length: ca. 182 km or 113 miles. It rises in SW Poland to join the Oder near Brzeg.
3. Nysa Szalona - length ca. 51 km, flows into Kaczawa river, which in turns flows into Oder.

Nysa (German Neiße) is 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