the Vistula basin

The Vistula basin had its last major flood in 1997 but is not considered as bad as the current flooding.

In the late 5th century, the Prague-Korchak culture appears in the Vistula basin.

At this time, the Burgundians were possibly living in the Vistula basin, according to the mid-6th-century historian of the Goths, Jordanes.

Almost whole area is located in the Vistula Basin, with the exception of western and southern parts, belonging to the Odra and Dunaj Basins.

This account fits the patterns of the Wielbark culture and the Chernyakhov culture, which show a Germanic migration from the Vistula Basin to Ukraine.

According to Jordanes, Berig led his people on three ships from Scandza (Scandinavia) to Gothiscandza (the Vistula Basin).

Protoslavic tribes (Lusatia and Przeworsk Culture) occupied large parts of the Vistula Basin in the first millennium BCE.

The Vistula Basin includes most of the eastern half of the country and is drained by a system of rivers that mainly join the Vistula from the east.

The Burgundians were an East Germanic tribe believed to have migrated from the Scandinavian island of Bornholm to the Vistula basin in the 3rd century AD.

According to the plans from the 1930s, the government of the Second Polish Republic envisaged construction of 27 reservoirs in the Vistula Basin, and 19 reservoirs in the Dniestr Basin.

This is connected to the movement of east Germanic groups into the Vistula basin, and subsequently to the middle Dnieper basin, associated with the appearance of the Przeworsk and Chernyakhov cultures, respectively.

The lands which the South Slav tribes first entered, in the middle of the first millennium AD, were geographically very different from their earlier homelands north of the Carpathians, in the Vistula basin and the Ukraine.

During the time of Turkic peoples - Mongol - Hun invasion of Europe some Udmurt tribes joined the Sarmatians in the great "Migration period" and settled in the Vistula basin c. 100-300 CE.

According to linguistic sources, the Baltic tribes precursors appeared first inland, in the forest zone regions far from the sea, and only later settled the near Baltic Sea areas, extending from the northeastern part of the Vistula basin to the Daugava River basin.