Eider River

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Template:Infobox river The Eider (-German; Danish: Ejderen; Latin: Egdor or Egdore) is the longest river of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The river starts south of Kiel near the shores of the Baltic Sea, but flows to the west, ending in the North Sea. The middle part of the Eider was appropriated for use as part of the Kiel Canal.<ref>{{cite web

 | title=The History of the City of Kiel, 1243 - 1945
 | work=British Kiel Yacht Club
 | url=http://www.bkyc.de/html/kiel_1243_-_1945.html
 | accessdate=2006-03-16}}</ref>

In the early Middle Ages the Eider was the border between the Saxons and the Danes, as reported by Adam of Bremen in 1076. For centuries it divided Denmark and the Holy Roman Empire.<ref>{{cite book

| first=M.K.
| last=Lawson
| year=1993
| title=Cnut, The Danes in England in the Early Eleventh Century
| publisher=Longman
| location=New York
| id=ISBN 0582059690 }}</ref>  Today it is the border between Schleswig and Holstein, the northern and southern parts, respectively, of the modern German state of Schleswig-Holstein.

The estuary has tidal flats and brackish water.

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