Lusatian Neisse

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The Neisse river near the village of Ratzdorf (D) at the confluence in the Oder river. View to Poland

The Lusatian Neisse<ref>Tockner, Klement; Uehlinger, Urs and Robinson Christopher T. (2009). Rivers of Europe, Academic Press, London, Burlington and San Diego. Template:ISBN.</ref><ref>Fritsch-Bournazel, Renata (1992). Europe and German Unification, Berg, Oxford and Providence, RI, p. 106. Template:ISBN</ref><ref>McKenna, Amy (2014). Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland, Britannica Guide to Countries of the EU, New York, p. 193. Template:ISBN.</ref> (Template:Langx; Template:Langx; Template:Langx; Upper Sorbian: Łužiska Nysa; Lower Sorbian: Łužyska Nysa), or Western Neisse, is a Template:Convert river in northern Central Europe.<ref name="brit">Neisse River at www.britannica.com. Retrieved 4 Feb 2011.</ref><ref>Transnational Pilot River Basin at http://eagri.cz/public. Retrieved 4 Feb 2011.</ref> It rises in the Jizera Mountains, near Nová Ves nad Nisou, at the Czech border becoming the Polish–German border for its remaining Template:Convert, to flow into the similarly northward-flowing Oder from the left.

Its drainage basin covers Template:Convert, of which Template:Convert is in Poland, the rest is mainly in Germany.<ref name=yearbook>Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Poland 2017, Statistics Poland, pp. 85–86</ref> The river reaches the tripoint of the three nations by Zittau, a German town/city, after Template:Convert, leaving the Czech Republic.<ref name=yearbook/> It is a left-bank tributary of the Oder, into which it flows between Neißemünde-Ratzdorf and Kosarzyn – north of the towns of Guben and Gubin. The river was a motivations to found Gubin as a craftmanship and trading port in the 13th Century.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Since the 1945 Potsdam Agreement in the aftermath of World War II, the river has partially demarcated the German-Polish border (along the Oder–Neisse line). The German population east of the river was expelled from Poland to Germany.

It is the longest and most watered of the three rivers of its non-adjectival name in both the main languages (the two other rivers being the Eastern Neisse (Template:Langx; Template:Langx) and Raging Neisse (Polish: Nysa Szalona; German: Wütende Neiße or Jauersche Neiße)). It is usually simply referred to as the Neisse.

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Since the river runs through the historic region of Lusatia, the adjective "Lusatian" or "Western" before the name of the river Neisse is used whenever differentiating this border river from the Eastern Neisse (Polish: Nysa Kłodzka, German: Glatzer Neiße) and the smaller Raging Neisse (Polish: Nysa Szalona; German: Wütende Neiße or Jauersche Neiße), both in Poland.