Warta (Latin: Varta, German: Warthe) is a river in western-central Poland, a tributary of the Oder river. With a length of approximately 808 kilometers it is the country’s third longest river. Warta has a basin area of 54,529. It is connected to the Vistula by the river Note? and the Bydgoszcz Canal (Kana? Bydgoski).
It flows out of Upper Silesia (the Silesian Voivodship) near Zawiercie, flows through Lodz Land, Greater Poland and Lubusz Land where it empties into river Oder near Kostrzyn. It is connected to river Vistula by the Note? river and the Bydgoszcz Canal near Bydgoszcz.
Cities
Zawiercie
Cz?stochowa
Dzia?oszyn
Sieradz
Warta, Town
Dobra
Ko?o
Konin
Pyzdry
?rem
Mosina
Puszczykowo
Lubo?
Pozna?
Oborniki
Obrzycko
Wronki
Sierakw
Mi?dzychd
Skwierzyna
Gorzw Wielkopolski
Kostrzyn
Related Travel Information
?rem is a town on Warta river in central Poland with 29,800 inhabitants (1995).
Situated in the Greater Poland Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Poznan Voivodship (1975-1998).
Situated on Warta river, in the Poznan metro area, in the Greater Poland Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Poznan Voivodship (1975-1998).
Sieradz is a town on Warta river in central Poland with 44,700 inhabitants (1995). It is situated in the Lodz Voivodship (since 1999), and was previously the capital of Sieradz Voivodship (1975-1998).
Sieraków (English: Sierakow German: Zirke) is a town in western Poland with 6022 inhabitants (1998). Located by the Warta River, situated in the Greater Poland Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Poznan Voivodship (1975-1998).
Major corporations
Glass Work Majchrzak
WartaGlass
Meat Plant "BARTEK
Ko?o is a town on Warta river in central Poland with 23,493 inhabitants (2004). Situated in the Greater Poland Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Konin Voivodship (1975-1998).
History
The town of Ko?o (mentioned as Colo) received local government in 1362 from the king Casimir the Great. It was situated in a safe place near the royal castle, on the island in the branches of the Warta river, the town had no walls but only two gates. It was w royal city, and seat of a land county (starostwo niegrodowe).
In 1410 Ko?o was a gathering place of the Greater Poland nobily, called for