Before Slavs settled along its banks, the Oder was an important trade route, and towns in Germania were documented along with many tribes living between the rivers Albis (Elbe), Oder, and Vistula.
From the confluence of the Lusatian Neisse river to the dividing into Western Oder and Eastern Oder, it marks the border between Germany and Poland (163 km). Like other large rivers, the Oder has played a key role in the lives of the people living in its neighbourhood.
Together with the Bydgoszcz Canal, it is connected to the Western European waterway system via the Oder-Spree and Oder-Havel canals in eastern Germany. Location and map of the Oder
English Translation of “ODER” | The official Collins German-English Dictionary online. Over 100,000 English translations of German words and phrases.
From Middle High German oder (whence also Yiddish אָדער (oder)), from Old High German odar, an alteration of odo by analogy with wedar (whence modern weder). The form odo is an assimilated, unstressed form of eddo (also edo), itself cognate with Old Saxon ettho, Old English eþþa, oþþe, Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐌸𐌸𐌰𐌿 (aiþþau).
The Oder rises in the Czech Republic and flows 742km (461miles) through western Poland, later forming 187km (116miles) of the border between Poland and Germany as part of the Oder–Neisse line.
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