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The Danube ( / ˈdæn.juːb / DAN-yoob; see also other names) is the second-longest river in Europe, after the Volga in Russia. It flows through Central and Southeastern Europe, from the Black Forest south into the Black Sea. A large and historically important river, it was once a frontier of the Roman Empire.
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The Black Forest (German: Schwarzwald [ˈʃvaʁt͡svalt] ⓘ) is a...
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The Danube (Latin name Hister) is the second-longest river in Europe (the Volga is the longest). It is the longest river of the European Union. The river is 2,860 km (1,777 mi) long. Brigach and Breg join in Donaueschingen (near the Black Forest) to "make" the Danube.
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The Danube is Europe's second-longest river. It originates 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. It flows generally eastward for a distance of some 1776 miles (2857 km), passing through several Central and Eastern European capit...
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 which flows north towards the North Sea, an invisible l...
The Danube basin was the site of some of the earliest human cultures. The Danubian Neolithic cultures include the Linear Pottery cultures of the mid-Danube basin. The third millennium B.C.E. Vučedol culture (from the Vučedol site near Vukovar, Croatia) is famous for its ceramics. Many sites of the sixth-to-third millennium B.C.E.Vinča culture are s...
The outstanding landscapes of the Danube's floodplains provide multiple ecosystem services, such as biodiversity conservation, water purification, pollution reduction, flood protection and support for socio-economic activities such as fisheriesand tourism.
The Danube Bike Trail (also called Danube Cycle Path or the "Donauradweg") is a bicycle trail along the Danube, winding through the following countries: Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Ukraine. This most-loved of Europe's bike paths is divided into four sections: Part I, the Donauschlingen-Passau (550 km...
Fermor, Patrick Leigh. Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople From the Hook of Holland: The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates. New York: Viking. ISBN 0670811491Magris, Claudio. Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea. London: Harvill Press, 1999. ISBN 1860466338Paton, A.A. Researches on the Danube and the Adriatic; or Contributions to the Modern History of Hungary and Transylvania, Dalmatia and Croatia, Servia and Bulgaria I. Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1861.The Danube is the second-longest river in Europe, with a length of 2,850 km (1,770 mi). It begins in the Black Forest in Germany and flows east to the Black Sea, forming the Danube Delta on its western coast. From west to east, the Danube passes through or borders ten countries, including four capital cities:
Apr 18, 2016 · TRAVEL. Smithsonian Journeys Travel Quarterly: The Danube. How the Danube Became a Multinational Power Source. Spanning 1,770 miles from Germany’s Black Forest to the coast of Romania, the...
