The Nysa Mała ("Little Neisse") is a

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that is about 19 kilometres long,EMAPI - Map Company Website Emapa
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Raging Neisse The Raging NeisseDodge, Lt Col Theodore Ayrault. ''Napoleon: A History of the Art of War. Vol. IV'', 2014 (, or ''Jauersche Neiße'') is a river in Poland. It has a length of about and flows into the Kaczawa (Katzbach), which in turn flows into ...

. In the area of the foothills of the

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it flows through the Chełmy Landscape Park. The Little Neisse flows for much of its course through deciduous forests. The entire course of the river is located south of

Jawor Jawor () is a town in south-western Poland with 22,890 inhabitants (2019). It is situated in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It is the seat of Jawor County, and lies approximately west of the regional capital Wrocław. One of the oldest towns ...

, and north of

Bolków Bolków () is a town in Jawor County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district (gmina) called Gmina Bolków and part of the '' Neisse-Nysa-Nisa'' Euroregion. Overview The town lies at ...

and runs from west to east. Between

Gniewków Gniewków is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Dobromierz, within Świdnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It lies approximately north of Dobromierz, north-west of Świdnica, and west of the region ...

and Czernica, the Little Neisse discharges into the

, the largest and most important tributary of the Kaczawa.

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* ''Słownik geografii turystycznej Sudetów'', Volume 7 '' Kaczawskie '', ed. Marek Staffa, Publisher I-BiS, Wroclaw, 2002, {{DEFAULTSORT:Nysa Mala Rivers of Poland Rivers of Lower Silesian Voivodeship

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