The Danube (Donau in German; Dunaj in Slovak; Duna in Hungarian; Dunav in Croatian; Дунав/Dunav in Serbian; Дунав in Bulgarian; Dunăre in Romanian; Дунай (Dunay) in Ukrainian; Danuvius in Latin) is Europe's second-longest river (after the Volga). It rises in the Black Forest in Germany as two smaller rivers – the Brigach and the Breg – which join at Donaueschingen, and it is from here that it is known as the Danube, flowing south-eastwards for a distance of some 2850 km (1771 miles) before emptying into t ...

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• Danube - Fishing
• Danube - Tourism
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Although the headwaters of the Danube are relatively small today, geologically, the Danube is much older than the Rhine, with which its catchment area competes in today's southern Germany. This has a few interesting geological complications. Since the Rhine is the only river rising in the Alps mountains which flows north towards the North Sea, an invisible line divides large parts of southern Germany, which is sometimes refe ...

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The Danube Delta (Delta Dunării in Romanian), located in Dobrogea, Romania and a small part in Odes'ka oblast', Ukraine, is the largest and best preserved of European deltas, with an area of 3446 km². The delta is located around the area where the Danube River flows into the Black Sea. Danube Delta - Geography. Every year, the alluvium deposited by the Danube increases the width of the Delta by around 40 meters, making it extremely dynamic. Near Tulcea, the Danube is divided in three river branches ...

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List of islands of Hungary - In Budapest from north to south. Palotai-sziget (in fact, it's a peninsula today) Nép-sziget (connected to the above, but mostly surrounded by water) Óbudai-sziget (a.k.a. Hajógyári-sziget, see also Sziget Festival) Margitsziget (or Margit-sziget) Háros-sziget Csepel-sziget (only its tip belongs to Budapest) List of islands of Hungary - Outside of Budapest. Mohácsi-s ...

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The Danube School (German:Donauschule or Donaustil) is the name of a circle of painters of the first third of the 16th century in Bayern and Austria (also along the Danube valley). Among the most important painters are Albrecht Altdorfer, Wolf Huber, Jörg Breu the Elder and Rueland Frueauf the Younger. Occasionally, Lucas Cranach the Elder is considered a painter of the Danube school. See also. Early Renaissance painting ...

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The Danube is navigable by ocean ships from the Black Sea to Brăila, in Romania and by river ships to Kelheim; smaller craft can navigate further upstream to Ulm, in Germany. About 60 of its tributaries are also navigable. See Danube-Black Sea Canal. Since the construction of the German Rhine-Main-Danube Canal in 1992, the river has been part of a trans-European waterway from Rotterdam on the North Sea to Sulina on the Black Sea (3500 km). In 1994 the Danube was declared one of ten Pan-European transport corridors, routes in Central ...

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The Danube-Bucharest Canal is a 73 kilometers-long canal project that is supposed to link Bucharest, Romania to the Danube via Argeş River. Earliest plans date from 1880 being made by engineer Nicolae Cucu and it had as a goal linking Bucharest to the Danube at Olteniţa. In 1927, a study by Alexandru Davidescu was published at the the Polytechnic School and two years later, the Romanian parliament passed the law no. 2749 on the building of Argeş - Bucharest - Danube canal and of a port in Bucharest, published in Monitorul Of ...

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The Danube-Black Sea Canal is a canal in Romania which runs from Cernavodă on the Danube to Agigea (southern arm) and Năvodari (northern arm) on the Black Sea. Danube-Black Sea Canal - Statistics. It opened in 1984, and the 64km canal reduces the distance by boat from Constanţa to Cernavodă by 400 km, being an important part of the European canal system that links the North Sea to the Black Sea. The Canal has a width of 60 metres and a depth of 7 metres. The Northern arm has a length of 26.6 km, ...

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Yantra is a river in Bulgaria. It flows into the river Danube near Svishtov. The city Veliko Turnovo lies on the banks of the river Yantra. Other related archivesBulgaria, Danube, Svishtov, Veliko Turnovo

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The Brigach is the shorter of the two German rivers that form the Danube river. It has its source at 925 m above sea level in St. Georgen in the Black Forest. After 43 km, it joins the Breg river in Donaueschingen to form the Danube. Other related archivesBlack Forest, Breg, Danube, Donaueschingen, German

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The Breg is the longer of the two German rivers that form the Danube river. Its spring is situated at 1078 m above sea level in the Black Forest, near Furtwangen, 100 m away from the invisible line that forms the European Watershed. After 49 km, it joins the Brigach river in the city of Donaueschingen and is henceforth called Danube. Other related archivesBlack Forest, Brigach, Danube, Donaueschingen, European Watershed, Furtwangen, German, rivers, the Dagda

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376 - Events. Visigoths appear on the Danube and request entry into the Roman Empire in their flight from the Huns 376 - Births. Cyril of Alexandria, theologian Category: 376 ...

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The Bastroe Channel (a.k.a. Bastroe Canal, Bystroye or Bystroe Channel, etc.) is a proposed project by Ukraine in the Danube Delta. According to official Ukrainian plans as of 2004, it should be completed in 2008. The intent is to provide a deep-water route from the Danube to the Black Sea under Ukrainian control, in order to reduce their ship transit costs. Ecologists have been raised significant concerns about damage to the Danube Delta ecosystem. [1] After the apparent failure of diplomatic efforts, the governm ...

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Carpathian Germans (German: Karpatendeutsche, Slovak: karpatskí Nemci), sometimes simply called Slovak Germans (German: Slowakeideutsche), is the name for a group of German language speakers on the territory of present-day Slovakia. The term was coined by the historian Raimund Friedrich Preindel, and is also sometimes used to refer to Germans in the Carpathian Ruthenia. Germans settled in Slovakia from the 12th to 15th centuries, mostly after the Mongol invasion of 1241, though there were probably some iso ...

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Wien can refer to: The German name for the city of Vienna, the capital of Austria. See Vienna. A river in Austria, flowing into the Danube River in Vienna. See Wien (river). German physicist Wilhelm Wien, discoverer of Wien's displacement law. Wien, Wisconsin Other related archivesAustria, Danube River, German, Vienna, Wien (river), Wien's displacement law, Wien, Wisconsin, Wilhelm Wien, physicist

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Caraş (Romanian: Caraş, Serbian: Karaš or Караш) is a river in Southeastern Europe that rises in the Aninei Mountains, Romania and flows into the Danube in Serbia. Other related archivesDanube, Romania, Serbia, Southeastern Europe

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The Bavarian Geographer is the author of an anonymous medieval document prepared in ca. 850 probably in Regensburg and stored in the Munich library (both cities in Bavaria). It is entitled a 'Description of Cities and Lands North of Danube' and it contains a list of the tribes in Central-Eastern Europe east of Elbe and north of Danube rivers (most of them of Slavonic origin). There are also some information about the number of strongholds (civitatesIncluding:

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Vit (Bulgarian Вит) is a river in Northern Bulgaria with a length of 189 km. The source of Vit is in Stara Planina at an altitude of 2030 m and it is draining in Danube. Towns at river Vit: Teteven Pleven Dolni Dubnik Dolna Mitropoliya Gulyantsi ...

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Danubian may refer to: Danube river and the peoples and countries living near to it; Danubian culture, a neolithic European culture; Danubian school of painting Danubian principalities, a historical term used for Wallachia and Moldavia. Other related archivesDanube, Danubian culture, Danubian school, Moldavia, Wallachia

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