{{Infobox river | name = Knajka | image = Knajka starejpg.jpg | image_caption = Knajka on a map from 1724 | image_size = 180 | source1_location = Chełm Hill, Silesian Foothills<ref name="chwastek">{{cite journal|last = Chwastek|first = Eugeniusz|title = Co z tą Knajką|url = http://debowiec.cieszyn.pl/files/3-2005.pdf|journal = Dębowieści|volume = 3|issue = 55|pages = 9|date = May–June 2005|issn = 1641-5477|access-date = 2011-01-15|archive-date = 2015-04-02|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150402173802/http://debowiec.cieszyn.pl/files/3-2005.pdf|url-status = dead}}</ref> | mouth_location = Vistula | mouth_coordinates = {{coord|49.9051|18.7584|region:PL|display=it}} | progression = {{RVistula}} | subdivision_type1 = Country | subdivision_name1 = Poland | length_km = 17|length_ref=<ref name="chwastek"/><ref>{{cite book|last = Mróz| first = Henryk| title = Śląsk Cieszyński. Środowisko naturalne| publisher = Macierz Ziemi Cieszyńskiej | place = Cieszyn| year = 1997| pages = 24| chapter = Środowisko geograficzne polskiego Śląska Cieszyńskiego| isbn = 83-903589-9-9}}</ref> or {{convert|19|km|abbr=on}}<ref name="woj">{{cite web| url = http://www.slaskie.pl/przest_plan/ekofiz/2_char_stanu/3_char_elem/3_6_wody%20pow/wody_powierz.pdf| title = Plan Zagospodarowania Przestrzennego Województwa Śląskiego| access-date = 2011-01-13| date = 2004| language = pl| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150924102602/http://www.slaskie.pl/przest_plan/ekofiz/2_char_stanu/3_char_elem/3_6_wody%20pow/wody_powierz.pdf| archive-date = 2015-09-24| url-status = dead}}</ref> | source1_elevation = {{convert|354|m|abbr=on}}<ref name="chwastek"/> | discharge1_avg = | basin_size_km2 = 68.6|basin_size_ref=<ref name="woj"/> }}
'''Knajka''' is a stream in the Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland, in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. It is a left-bank tributary of the Vistula, which it enters just south of Strumień. Its length is variously said to be either {{convert|17|km|mi}}<ref name="chwastek"/> or {{convert|19|km|mi}}.<ref name="woj"/> It flows through Ogrodzona, Kostkowice, Dębowiec, Knaj and Bąków. Numerous fish ponds are located alongside of it.
The name of the river is derived from a word ''knieja'' denoting a ''wild, dense forest''.<ref name="mrozek">{{cite book | last = Mrózek | first = Robert | title = Nazwy miejscowe dawnego Śląska Cieszyńskiego |trans-title=Local names of former Cieszyn Silesia | publisher = Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach | year = 1984 | location = Katowice | pages = 91 | language = pl |issn = 0208-6336}}</ref>
<gallery> File:Widok ze wzgórza Chełm Źródła Knajki.jpeg|Headwaters area File:Stawy w Dębowcu 5.JPG|One of the fish ponds alongside the stream, in Dębowiec </gallery>
== Notes== {{reflist}}
== References == * {{cite journal|last = Chwastek|first = Eugeniusz|title = Co z tą Knajką|url = http://debowiec.cieszyn.pl/files/3-2005.pdf|journal = Dębowieści|volume = 3|issue = 55|pages = 9|date = May–June 2005|issn = 1641-5477|access-date = 2011-01-15|archive-date = 2015-04-02|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150402173802/http://debowiec.cieszyn.pl/files/3-2005.pdf|url-status = dead}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Knajka}} Category:Rivers of Poland Category:Rivers of Silesian Voivodeship Category:Cieszyn County Category:Cieszyn Silesia
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