Only show
results for:

Topics related to "Vistula"

Vistula
Vistula , Pol. Wisła, longest river and principal waterway of Poland, c.665 mi (1,070 km) long. It rises in the West Beskid range of the Carpathians, S Poland, and flows NE past Kraków, NW past Warsaw and Toruń, and N past Grudziądz and Tczew to the Gulf of Danzig on the Balt... Read more
Oder
Oder , Czech and Pol. Odra, river, 562 mi (904 km) long; the second longest river of Poland. It rises in the E Sudetes, NE Czech Republic, and flows generally NW through SW Poland, then N along the Poland-Germany border to the Baltic Sea N of Szczecin, Poland. The Warta and the Lausitzer Neisse ri... Read more
levee
levee [Fr.,=raised], embankment built along a river to prevent flooding by high water. Levees are the oldest and the most extensively used method of flood control. They are constructed by piling earth on a surface that has been cleared of vegetation and leveled. From a broad base the levee narrow... Read more
Polish Corridor
Polish Corridor strip of German territory awarded to newly independent Poland by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. The strip, 20 to 70 mi (32-112 km) wide, gave Poland access to the Baltic Sea. It contained the lower course of the Vistula, except the area constituting the Free City of Danzig (see ... Read more
Warsaw
Warsaw , Pol. Warszawa, city (1993 est. pop. 1,655,700), capital of Poland and of Mazowieckie prov., central Poland, on both banks of the Vistula River. It is a political, cultural, and industrial center, a major transportation hub, and one of Europe's great historic cities. Among its many industr... Read more
Baltic Sea
Baltic Sea arm of the Atlantic Ocean, c.163,000 sq mi (422,170 sq km), including the Kattegat strait, its northwestern extension. The Øresund, Store Bælt, and Lille Bælt connect the Baltic Sea with the Kattegat and Skagerrak straits, which lead to the North Sea; the Kiel Canal, a... Read more
Toruń
Toruń , Ger. Thorn, city (1993 est. pop. 201,700), capital (with Bydgoszcz) of Kujawsko-Pomorskie prov., N central Poland, on the Vistula River. It is a river port and a railway junction. The major industries produce precision instruments, electrical equipment, textiles, and fertilizers. It g... Read more
Germans
Germans great ethnic complex of ancient Europe, a basic stock in the composition of the modern peoples of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, N Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, N and central France, Lowland Scotland, and England. From archaeology it is clear... Read more
East Prussia
East Prussia Ger. Ostpreussen, former province of Prussia, extreme NE Germany. The region of East Prussia has low rolling hills that are heavily wooded, and it is dotted by many lakes (especially in Masuria ). The region is drained by several rivers including the Nemen (Nieman); the Baltic coast... Read more
Galicia
Galicia , Pol. Galicja, Ukr. Halychyna, Rus. Galitsiya, historic region (32,332 sq mi/83,740 sq km), SE Poland and W Ukraine, covering the slopes of the N Carpathians and plains to the north and bordering on Slovakia in the south. It is drained by the upper Dniester, the upper Vistula, and the... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Vistula"

Vistula
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Vistula , Pol. Wisła, longest river and principal...estuary are the Nogat, which flows past Malbork to the Vistula Lagoon, and the Martwa Wisła [dead Vistula], which flows past Gdańsk. Navigable for...
Vistula Lagoon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Vistula Lagoon Pol. Zalew Wiślany, shallow inlet of the Baltic Sea, 322 sq mi (834 sq km), c.60 mi (100 km) long and...
Poland
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography ...country drains northwestward to the Baltic Sea by way of the Vistula (Wisla) and Oder (Odra) Rivers. Most other rivers in Poland join the Vistula and Oder systems. The Vistula and its tributaries drain the country's largest basin, an...
Polish Americans
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America ...Baltic Sea to the north. Drained by the Vistula and Oder Rivers, Poland is a land of...in the Slavic tribes that inhabited the Vistula valley as early as the second millennium...settling in and around the Oder and Vistula valleys. Highly clannish, these tribes...
Dęblin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...blin , city (1994 est. pop. 19,400), Lubelskie prov., E Poland, on the Vistula River. It is a railway junction and one of the main crossings of the Vistula. Founded as a fortress by Czar Nicholas I in 1837, it was captured by the Germans...
Zhukov, Marshal Georgi
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...Belorussian, through the ensuing gap and closed to the River Vistula north and south of Warsaw in August. In November, Stalin...level planning and co-ordination. Out of bridgeheads on the Vistula, Zhukov, with Konev's First Ukrainian front on his left...
Gdańsk (German, Danzig)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...in the second half of the tenth century at the mouth of the Vistula on the Baltic, Gda ń sk became a largely German...freedoms until 1793. Gda ń sk was now linked via the Vistula with the Polish-Lithuanian hinterland, where it had the...
Polish Corridor
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Polish Corridor Strip of land along the River Vistula , dividing East Prussia from the rest of Germany, and providing...independent. The city of Gdańsk , near the mouth of the Vistula, was made a free city but, dominated by Germans, excluded...
Warsaw
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Mazowieckie prov., central Poland, on both banks of the Vistula River. It is a political, cultural, and industrial center...battle was raging the Soviet army, which was camped across the Vistula and which the partisans had hoped would come to their aid...
Germans
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Germanic language. The Goths apparently moved SE from the Vistula River to the Balkans, thence W across Europe. German Tribes...Gepidae, a Gothic people, moved southward from the Baltic at Vistula into the Hungarian plain W of the Danube. Overwhelmed by Attila...

Dictionary entries related to "Vistula"

Teutonic Order
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...powers on the Grand Master and gave almost limitless rights over future conquests to the Order. In 1231 the knights crossed the Vistula and from 1236 the Order also expanded in Livonia, but from the later 13th cent. it gave itself increasingly to the administration...
Russo-Polish War
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...outskirts of Warsaw. The Polish army regrouped and, with the help of Weygand , Pilsudski achieved the ‘miracle of the Vistula’ and again advanced deep into Russian territory. In the Peace of Riga (18 March 1921), Poland gained a new eastern...
Martens, Adolf
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...he entered the service of the Prussian State Railway, where he participated in the planning of the great bridges over the Vistula near Thorn and over the Memel near Tilsit. From 1875 to 1879 he was a member of the Commission for the Berlin-Nordhausen...
Prussia
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Baltic to an extensive domain covering much of modern north-east Germany and Poland. The forested area to the east of the Vistula, originally inhabited by a Baltic people known as the Prussians, was taken in the 13th century by the Teutonic Knights...
Polish parapet
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...Poland. Good examples are the Cloth Hall, Kraków (1555–8), the Town Hall, Chełmno on the Vistula (1567–72), and two remarkable façades in the Market Square of Kazimierz Dolny (1615 and 1635...
Chiaveri, Gaetano
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...with a beautiful tower, and elevations influenced by the Royal Chapel at Versailles. Chiaveri also prepared plans for the Vistula frontage of the Royal Palace in Warsaw (1740), and for another Royal Palace (late 1740s) in Dresden, which was not built...
Urnfield period
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology ...cemeteries known as ‘urnfields’. The funeral practice spread westward to the area between the Elbe and the Vistula, to southern Germany, and across the Alps to Italy. By the 10th century BC the entire region shared cultural similarities...
Poland
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...sandy in places, marshy in others and requires careful cultivation, although inland it is well drained by the Odra (Oder), Vistula, and other rivers. There are many small forests, which increase in size as the land rises through rolling hills and richer...

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

Vistula Communications Services, Inc. Announces Corporate Reorganization to Reflect Revised Operational Responsibilities.
PR Newswire; 8/3/2006; 700+ words ; ...YORK, Aug. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Vistula Communications Services, Inc. (BULLETIN...has reorganized the management structure of Vistula and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Vistula Ltd. and Vistula USA, Inc. As part of the...
Vistula Communications Services, Inc. Elects Jack Early to Board of Directors.
PR Newswire; 4/12/2006; 700+ words ; ...April 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Vistula Communications Services, Inc. (BULLETIN...Clientsoft brings a wealth of experience to Vistula's rapidly growing business. "Having done my own due diligence, I found that Vistula will win the customer footprint and become...
Vistula Communications Services, Inc. Announces Completion of Acquisition of V-Cube(TM) IP-PBX Solution.
PR Newswire; 6/12/2006; 700+ words ; ...June 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Vistula Communications Services, Inc. (BULLETIN...intellectual property rights from NetYantra Inc. Vistula was previously marketing and distributing...8.8 million and 14 million shares of Vistula's common stock. The V-Cube(TM...
Vistula Communications Is Selected by Northamber PLC for the Sale and Distribution of Its IP-PBX VoIP Platform in the UK.
PR Newswire; 2/6/2007; 700+ words ; ...Rest of Europe, This Partnership Positions Vistula for Accelerated Revenue Growth in 2007 NEW YORK, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Vistula Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Vistula Communications Services, Inc. (BULLETIN...
Vistula Announces Exclusive Five Year Contract with Telstra Europe Limited; Vistula V-Cube(TM) VoIP will be distributed in UK and Ireland.
PR Newswire; 4/4/2005; 700+ words ; NEW YORK, April 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Vistula Communications Services, Inc. ("Vistula") announced today that Telstra Europe Limited...exclusive, five-year contract to distribute Vistula's V-Cube(TM) VoIP platform in the UK and...
Vistula Communication Services, Inc. Acquires Goodman Blue Limited.
PR Newswire; 10/11/2006; 700+ words ; NEW YORK, Oct. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Vistula Communications Services, Inc. ("Vistula") (BULLETIN BOARD: VSTL) (http://www.vistula.com/), a global supplier of flexible and reliable Voice over IP...
Vistula Communications' V-Cube(TM) IP-PBX Platform Tapped for Telstra Europe's New Cambridge Data Center.
PR Newswire; 3/1/2006; 700+ words ; ...March 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Vistula Communications Inc., (BULLETIN BOARD...and internet suppliers, has deployed Vistula's V-Cube(TM) IP-PBX platform...no business interruption or downtime. Vistula's V-Cube IP PBX is not only being...
Vistula Communications Services, Inc. Announces the Signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with Saigon Post and Telecommunications Services Corporation for Implementation of Vistula's V-Cube(TM) VoIP Platform in Vietnam.
PR Newswire; 10/3/2005; 700+ words ; ...YORK, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Vistula Communications Services, Inc. ("Vistula") (BULLETIN BOARD: VSTL) announced today...Corporation ("SPT") for the implementation of Vistula's V-Cube(TM) VoIP platform in Vietnam...
Vistula Communications Services, Inc. Completes $16.3 Million Private Placement.
PR Newswire; 5/23/2006; 700+ words ; ...May 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Vistula Communications Services, Inc. (BULLETIN...of accredited institutional investors. Vistula is required to file a registration statement...financing will provide the funds necessary for Vistula to complete its purchase of the hosted...
Vistula Communications Services, Inc. Enters Into Agreements With Telstra for Vistula's O2C Managed Office Software Platform and the Management of Customers.
PR Newswire; 10/13/2006; 700+ words ; ...YORK, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Vistula Communications Services, Inc. ("Vistula") (BULLETIN BOARD: VSTL) , a global supplier...Limited ("Telstra Europe") relating to Vistula's Order-to-Cash ("O2C") Managed Office...