Bzura
Sign in to saveThe Bzura is a river in central Poland. A tributary of the Vistula river (in Wyszogród), the Bzura is 173 kilometres long and has a basin area of 7,764 km2. During the Second World War, Polish forces made a major stand here against the Wehrmacht in an attempt to halt the German advance on Warsaw (Battle of the Bzura).
Key facts
- River.name
- Bzura
- River.image
- Kozlow Biskupi Bzura01.jpg
- River.image_size
- 300px
- River.image_caption
- The Bzura in Kozłów Biskupi
- River.mouth_location
- Vistula
- River.subdivision_type1
- Country
- River.subdivision_name1
- Poland
- River.length_km
- 173
- River.basin_size_km2
- 7764
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- Commons category
- Bzura
- tributary
- Pisia
- mouth of the watercourse
- Vistula
- watershed area
- 7788
- native label
- Bzura
- drainage basin
- Vistula basin
- discharge
- 25.5
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Towns and townships
- Eastern tributaries
- Western tributaries
- See also
- References
The Bzura is a river in central Poland. A tributary of the Vistula river (in Wyszogród), the Bzura is 173 kilometres long and has a basin area of 7,764 km2. During the Second World War, Polish forces made a major stand here against the Wehrmacht in an attempt to halt the German advance on Warsaw (Battle of the Bzura).
==Towns and townships== Zgierz Aleksandrów Łódzki Ozorków Łęczyca Łowicz Sochaczew Brochów Wyszogród
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bzura” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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