Byala ( Polish: Biała ) is a river in southern Poland , the right tributary of the Vistula . Length - 28 km. Area - 139 km².
| Byala | |
|---|---|
| polish Biała | |
 Byala in Bielsko-Biała. | |
| Characteristic | |
| Length | 28 km |
| Pool | 139 km² |
| Watercourse | |
| Source | |
| • Location | Silesian Beskids |
| • Height | 800 m |
| • Coordinates | |
| Mouth | Wisla |
| • Location | Czechowice-Dziedzice |
| • Height | 242 m |
| • Coordinates | |
| Location | |
| Water system | Wisla → Baltic Sea |
| A country |
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| Region | Silesian Voivodeship |
 - source  - mouth | |
Geography
Sources of the river are streams merging from the ranges of the Silesian Beskids : Klimchok , Shindzelni and Magura at an altitude of 800 meters above sea level.
The river floats through the Silesian Upland and flows into the Vistula near the city of Czechowice-Dziedzice , at 242 meters above sea level.
In the lower part of the valley, there are several pond complexes in Bielsko-Biała and Bestwyn.
Snow, rain, ground nutrition.
The main tributaries are Olszówka, Straцёнenko, Nyvka, Kzhiva and Kromparek.
Settlements on the river: Bystra , Bielsko-Biala , Bestvina , Kanyuv , Czechowice-Dziedzice .
Border River
For many centuries, Byala was a border river, dividing neighboring peoples, parishes, countries. Byala separates the historical territories of Silesia from Lesser Poland .
It was the border between the dioceses of the Roman Catholic Church . First between the Wroclaw and Krakow archdioceses , and since 1783 - the Tarn diocese .
Since 1316 it was the state border. First, between the Silesian principalities Tesinsky (from 1572 the Belsky principality that stood out from it) and Auschwitz . After the latter joined Poland in 1456, between the lands of the Commonwealth and the lands of the Czech crown . After the partition of Poland , from 1772, it divided the provinces of the Habsburg Empire - the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria , and Austrian Silesia .
During the Second Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth , it was part of the border between the Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship and the Krakow Voivodeship .
Before the unification of the cities of Byala Krakow and Bielsko in 1951, separated them from each other.
Sources
- Galeria historycznych i współczesnych zdjęć rzeki wraz z opisami (Inaccessible link - history ) .
- Renata Pysiewicz-Jędrusik, Andrzej Pustelnik, Beata Konopska: Granice Śląska. Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Rzeka, 1998, s. 15. ISBN 83-906558-4-5 .
- Jerzy Polak: HERBY BIELSKA I BIAŁEJ - GENEZA, SYMBOLIKA, ROZWÓJ. Bielskie Studia Muzealne, Bielsko-Biała, 1993
- Biała rzeka w Słowniku geograficznym Królestwa Polskiego , Tom I (Aa - Dereneczna) z 1880 r.
- Bielsko w Słowniku geograficznym Królestwa Polskiego , Tom I (Aa - Dereneczna) z 1880 r.
- Panic, Idzi , ed. (2011). Środowisko geograficzne. Wody powierzchniowe i podziemne. Bielsko-Biała. Monografia miasta. Tom I: Bielsko od zarania do wybuchu wojen śląskich. Bielsko-Biała: Wydział Kultury i Sztuki Urzędu Miejskiego w Bielsku-Białej. p. 57. ISBN 978-83-60136-31-7 .