"Tisa" redirects here. For other uses, see Tisa (disambiguation) and Tisza (disambiguation).
The Tisza is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It originates in Ukraine, with the White Tisza in the Chornohora and Black Tisza in the Gorgany range, flows partially along the Romanian border, passes through Hungary touching the border with Slovakia, and falls into the Danube in central Vojvodina in Serbia. It forms the boundary between the regions of Bačka and Banat . The Tisza drains an area of about 157,186 km².
Names for the river in the countries it flows through are:
The river was known as the Tisia in antiquity, and Latin names for it included Tissus, Tisia, Pathissus (Pliny, Naturalis historia, 4.25). It may be referred to as the Theiss (German: Theiß) in older English references.

Romanian: Tisa
Ukrainian: Тиса (Tysa)
Slovak: Tisa
Hungarian: Tisza, IPA pronunciation: [ˈtisa],(approximate pronunciation, Tee-suh)
Serbian: Тиса (Tisa) Regulation of the Tisza
In the 1980s the building of the Kisköre Reservoir started with the purpose of helping to control floods as well as storing water for drought seasons. It turned out, however, that the resulting Lake Tisza became one of the most popular tourist destinations in Hungary, since it had similar features to Lake Balaton at drastically cheaper prices and it was not crowded.