Nysa Kłodzka
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The Nysa Kłodzka (-Polish, German: Glatzer Neiße, Czech: Kladská Nisa) is a river in southwestern Poland, a tributary of the Oder river, with a length of 182 km (21st longest) and the basin area of 4,566 km² (3,744 in Poland).
[edit] Floods
Nysa Kłodzka is partially regulated. It has often left its banks and flooded nearby cities, at times destroying them completely. City chronicles from Kłodzko mention floods in the following years:
- 14th century: 1310
- 15th century: 1441, 1464, 1474
- 16th century: 1500, 1522, 1524, 1560, 1566, 1570, 1587, 1589, 1591, 1598,
- 17th century: 1602, 1603, 1605, 1610, 1611, 1612, 1625, 1646, 1652, 1655, 1689, 1693, 1696
- 18th century: 1702, 1703, 1713, 1724, 1735, 1736, 1740, 1755, 1763, 1767, 1775, 1785, 1787, 1789, 1799
- 19th century: 1804, 1806, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1831, 1850, 1854, 1879, 1881, 1883, 1891, 1897
- 20th century: 1900, 1903, 1907, 1938, 1952, 1997, 1998
[edit] Towns:
- Bardo
- Bystrzyca Kłodzka
- Kamieniec Ząbkowicki
- Kłodzko
- Lewin Brzeski
- Międzylesie
- Nysa
- Otmuchów
- Paczków
