Vistula

[ vis-choo-luh ]

noun
  1. a river in Poland, flowing N from the Carpathian Mountains past Warsaw into the Baltic near Danzig. About 650 miles (1,050 km) long.

  • Polish Wi·sła [vee-swah] /ˈvi swɑ/ .
  • German Weich·sel [vahyk-suhl] /ˈvaɪk səl/ .

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How to use Vistula in a sentence

  • In the later half of the campaign of 1806 he hopelessly failed to make any headway against the Russians east of the Vistula.

    Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-Pattison
  • The French troops crossed the Vistula at Warsaw, and encountered "the fifth element, mud."

    Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-Pattison
  • Bonaparte joined his great army on the Vistula, destined to invade Moscow.

  • The Emperor proceeded at once to station the various corps along the Vistula, with provision and munition depots behind them.

    The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte | William Milligan Sloane
  • There was an effort late in February to drive the French left wing across the Vistula, but it failed.

    The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte | William Milligan Sloane

British Dictionary definitions for Vistula

Vistula

/ (ˈvɪstjʊlə) /


noun
  1. a river in central and N Poland, rising in the Carpathian Mountains and flowing generally north and northwest past Warsaw and Torun, then northeast to enter the Baltic via an extensive delta region. Length: 1090 km (677 miles): Polish name: Wisla German name: Weichsel

  2. Vistula Lagoon a shallow lagoon on the SW coast of the Baltic Sea, between Danzig and Kaliningrad, crossed by the border between Poland and Russia: German name: Frisches Haff Polish name: Wislany Zalew Russian name: Vislinsky Zaliv

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