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Vistula
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Definition:Poland's largest and longest river. From its source in the Western Carpathian mountains it flows north through Krakow, cuts through Warsaw at its midpoint, and terminates at the Baltic Sea.
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Ahead he could see the fortifications towering over the Vistula. Samuel clung to his father more tightly. He was actually in Krakow, surrounded by the goyim, the people who locked them up every night.
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in some places the frontiers between the super-states are arbitrary. Eurasia, for example, could easily conquer the British Isles, which are geographically part of Europe, or on the other hand it would be possible for Oceania to push its frontiers to the Rhine or even to the Vistula.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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To us, the wish or objection of this or that French corporal to serve a second term appears as much a cause as Napoleon’s refusal to withdraw his troops beyond the Vistula and to restore the duchy of Oldenburg;
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace
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