Nysa Klodzka

   

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Nysa Kłodzka is a river in south-western Poland, a tributary of the Oder river, with a length of 182 kilometres (21st longest) and the basin area of 4,566 sq. km. (3,744 in Poland).

Floods

Nysa Kłodzka is regulated only partially. In the history it often left its banks and flooded the nearby cities, at times destroying them completely. City chronicles of Kłodzko mention the following floods:

  • 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

Towns:

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