
: ''For other uses of "Danube", see Danube (disambiguation).'' The Danube (''Donau'' in German language; ''Dunaj'' in Slovak language; ''Duna'' in Hungarian language; ''Dunav'' in Croatian language and Serbian language; ''Дунав (Dunav)'' in Bulgarian language; ''Dunăre'' in Romanian language; ''Дунай (Dunay)'' in Ukrainian language) is, after the Volga River, Europe's second-longest river. 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 (1775 miles) before emptying into the Black Sea via the Danube Delta in Romania. The Danube has for centuries been, as it remains today, an important international waterway. Known to history as one of the long-standing frontiers of the Roman Empire, the river flows through – or forms a part of the borders of – ten countries: Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine. The Danube flows through the following large cities: *Ulm - Germany *Regensburg - Germany *Linz - Austria *Vienna - capital of Austria, where the Danube floodplain is called the Lobau *Bratislava - capital of Slovakia *Budapest - capital of Hungary *Novi Sad - Serbia *Belgrade - capital of Serbia *Ruse - Bulgaria *Braila - Romania *Galati - Romania ===Tributaries=== The Danube's tributary rivers reach into seven other countries. Some Danubian tributaries are important rivers in their own right, navigable by barges and river boats of shallow draught. Ordered from source to mouth, the main tributaries are: :Iller - Lech River - Regen River (entering at Regensburg) - Isar - Inn River - Enns River - Morava River, Central Europe - Leitha - Váh (entering at Komárno) - Hron - Ipel - Sió - Drave - Tisza - Sava (entering at Belgrade) - Velika Morava - Caras River - Jiu River - Iskur - Olt River - Vedea River - Arges River - Ialomita River - Siret River - Prut River ===The Danube Delta=== :''Main article Danube Delta''. The Danube Delta has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1991. Its wetlands (on the Ramsar list of wetlands of international importance) support vast flocks of migratory birds, including the endangered Pygmy Cormorant (''Phalacrocorax pygmaeus''). Rival canalization and drainage scheme threaten the delta: see Bastroe Channel. ===Modern navigation=== The Danube is navigable by ocean ships from the Black Sea to Braila, in Romania and by river ships 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 corridors, routes in Central and Eastern Europe that required major investment over the following ten to fifteen years. The amount of goods transported on the Danube increased to about 100 million tons in 1987. In 1999, transport on the river was made difficult by the NATO bombing of 3 bridges in Serbia and Montenegro. The clearance of the debris was finished in 2002. At the Iron Gate (Danube), the Danube flows through a gorge that forms part of the boundary between Serbia and Romania; it contains a hydroelectricity dam. The gorge lies between Romania in the north and Serbia in the south. See also the Danube-Black Sea Canal. In Serbia and Montenegro there is Dunav-Tisa-Dunav channel as well. ==Geology== 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 referred to as the European Watershed. However, before the last ice age in the Pleistocene, the Rhine started at the southwestern tip of the Black Forest, while the waters from the Alps that today feed the Rhine were carried east by the so-called ''Urdonau'' (original Danube). Parts of this ancient river's bed, which was much larger than today's Danube, can still be seen in (now waterless) canyons in today's landscape of the Swabian Alb. After the Upper Rhine Valley had been eroded, most waters from the Alps changed their direction and began feeding the Rhine. Today's upper Danube is but a meek reflection of the ancient one. [[Image:Danube from kalemegdan.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Panoramic view of a Danube from Belgrade`s Kalemegdan]] Since the Swabian Alb is largely shaped of porous limestone, and since the Rhine's level is much lower than the Danube's, today subsurface rivers carry much water from the Danube to the Rhine. On many days in the summer, when the Danube carries little water, it completely oozes away noisily into these underground channels at two locations in the Swabian Alp, which are referred to as the ''Donauversickerung'' (Danube Sink). Most of this water resurfaces only 12 km south at the Aachtopf, Germany's wellspring with the highest flow, an average of 8,000 liters per second, north of Lake Constance -- thus feeding the Rhine. The European Water Divide thus in fact only applies for those waters that pass beyond this point, and only during the days of the year when the Danube carries enough water to survive the sink holes in the Donauversickerung. Since this enormous amount of underground water erodes much of its surrounding limestone, it is estimated that the Danube upper course will one day disappear entirely in favor of the Rhine, an event called Stream capture. ==Human history== The Danube basin contains sites of the earliest human cultures: the Danubian cultures include the Linear Pottery Cultures of the mid-Danube basin (see also Linear Ceramic culture) The Vucedol culture of the third millennium BC is famous for their ceramics. Later, many sites of the Vinca culture are sited along the Danube. == Cultural significance == [[Image:MariaValeriaBridge.jpg|thumb|left|At Esztergom and Štúrovo, the Danube separates Hungary from Slovakia.]] The Danube is mentioned in the title of a famous waltz by Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, ''The_Blue_Danube'' (''By the Beautiful Blue Danube''). The German tradition of landscape painting, the Danube school, was developed in the Danube valley in the 16th century. The most famous book describing the Danube ought to be Claudio Magris's masterpiece ''Danube'' (ISBN 1860468233). ==Notes== ¹ Length from the source of the Breg. ² Source of the Breg. ==External links== * [http://www.showcaves.com/english/de/karst/Donauversickerung.html Danube Sink] * [http://www.showcaves.com/english/de/springs/Aach.html Aachtopf spring] * Danube Basin [http://www.panda.org/graphics/fw-rivers/maps/DANUBE%20MAP.gif Map (GIF - 257 KB)], [http://pdf.wri.org/watersheds_2000/watersheds_europe_p2_38.pdf Map+info, PDF] * [http://www.danubecooperation.org Danube Portal] * [http://www.theister.com 'The Ister': A 2840km documentary film journey up the Danube] German rivers Austrian rivers Slovak rivers Hungarian rivers Rivers of Croatia Rivers of Serbia and Montenegro Bulgarian rivers Romanian rivers European geography Vojvodina Backa Banat ga:An Danóib nds:Donau
__TOC__ == It is the only major European river to flow from west to east == "It is the only major European river to flow from west to east," says this article. Similarly, the Red River of the North is reputed to be the only major North American river to flow from south to north. But is that reputation really true? If I inserted an assertion in the article that all other rivers in Europe that flow from west to east are merely ''exceptions'' to the rule that the Danube is the only one, how soon would that be deleted, as was the similar statement I made about the Red River of the North? User:Michael Hardy 02:45 Mar 14, 2003 (UTC) :I guess the Ebro, the Po and the Dniester aren't major enough. Let's remove this remark.User:Markussep 21:44, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC) ---- Changed 'Budapesta' to 'Budapest' in figure caption. --User:Isk s 22:43, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC) ---- Hi! this page needs the significance of the Danube to Europe commerce. What did the Danube do? How did it effect European culture? (from the page) == Esperanto == Why do we have the name of Danube in Esperanto ? User:Bogdangiusca | User talk:Bogdangiusca 21:05, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC) : Why not / De ce nu? User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 20:38, 2005 Mar 4 (UTC) ::Why not? Because the beginning of the article is overloaded with multi-lingual information. I have reduced the names to those used in the countries through or past which the Danube flows. Other names, if wanted, can be found by consulting the various other-language wikipedias listed in the side bar. -- User:Picapica 12:24, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC) : Danube and :eo:Danubo starts with Danu. See #Ethymology User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 20:47, 2005 Mar 4 (UTC). === Etymology === * See the reference at Danu to Danube. Regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 20:38, 2005 Mar 4 (UTC) ==A way to mprove this article == This isn't nearly good enough for the ''Danube'' folks! Any editors fluent in some of the Danube's languages could make translations of the richer material in other Wikipedias. Don't fret about English idiom: give us the meat and the best of the External links, and we'll tweak the wording!
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: ''For other uses of "Danube", see Danube (disambiguation).'' The Danube (''Donau'' in German language; ''Dunaj'' in Slovak language; ''Duna'' in Hungarian language; ''Dunav'' in Croatian language and Serbian language; ''Дунав (Dunav)'' in Bulgarian language; ''Dunăre'' in Romanian language; ''Дунай (Dunay)'' in Ukrainian language) is, after the Volga River, Europe's second-longest river. 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 (1775 miles) before emptying into the Black Sea via the Danube Delta in Romania. The Danube has for centuries been, as it remains today, an important international waterway. Known to history as one of the long-standing frontiers of the Roman Empire, the river flows through – or forms a part of the borders of – ten countries: Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine. The Danube flows through the following large cities: *Ulm - Germany *Regensburg - Germany *Linz - Austria *Vienna - capital of Austria, where the Danube floodplain is called the Lobau *Bratislava - capital of Slovakia *Budapest - capital of Hungary *Novi Sad - Serbia *Belgrade - capital of Serbia *Ruse - Bulgaria *Braila - Romania *Galati - Romania ===Tributaries=== The Danube's tributary rivers reach into seven other countries. Some Danubian tributaries are important rivers in their own right, navigable by barges and river boats of shallow draught. Ordered from source to mouth, the main tributaries are: :Iller - Lech River - Regen River (entering at Regensburg) - Isar - Inn River - Enns River - Morava River, Central Europe - Leitha - Váh (entering at Komárno) - Hron - Ipel - Sió - Drave - Tisza - Sava (entering at Belgrade) - Velika Morava - Caras River - Jiu River - Iskur - Olt River - Vedea River - Arges River - Ialomita River - Siret River - Prut River ===The Danube Delta=== :''Main article Danube Delta''. The Danube Delta has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1991. Its wetlands (on the Ramsar list of wetlands of international importance) support vast flocks of migratory birds, including the endangered Pygmy Cormorant (''Phalacrocorax pygmaeus''). Rival canalization and drainage scheme threaten the delta: see Bastroe Channel. ===Modern navigation=== The Danube is navigable by ocean ships from the Black Sea to Braila, in Romania and by river ships 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 corridors, routes in Central and Eastern Europe that required major investment over the following ten to fifteen years. The amount of goods transported on the Danube increased to about 100 million tons in 1987. In 1999, transport on the river was made difficult by the NATO bombing of 3 bridges in Serbia and Montenegro. The clearance of the debris was finished in 2002. At the Iron Gate (Danube), the Danube flows through a gorge that forms part of the boundary between Serbia and Romania; it contains a hydroelectricity dam. The gorge lies between Romania in the north and Serbia in the south. See also the Danube-Black Sea Canal. In Serbia and Montenegro there is Dunav-Tisa-Dunav channel as well. ==Geology== 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 referred to as the European Watershed. However, before the last ice age in the Pleistocene, the Rhine started at the southwestern tip of the Black Forest, while the waters from the Alps that today feed the Rhine were carried east by the so-called ''Urdonau'' (original Danube). Parts of this ancient river's bed, which was much larger than today's Danube, can still be seen in (now waterless) canyons in today's landscape of the Swabian Alb. After the Upper Rhine Valley had been eroded, most waters from the Alps changed their direction and began feeding the Rhine. Today's upper Danube is but a meek reflection of the ancient one. [[Image:Danube from kalemegdan.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Panoramic view of a Danube from Belgrade`s Kalemegdan]] Since the Swabian Alb is largely shaped of porous limestone, and since the Rhine's level is much lower than the Danube's, today subsurface rivers carry much water from the Danube to the Rhine. On many days in the summer, when the Danube carries little water, it completely oozes away noisily into these underground channels at two locations in the Swabian Alp, which are referred to as the ''Donauversickerung'' (Danube Sink). Most of this water resurfaces only 12 km south at the Aachtopf, Germany's wellspring with the highest flow, an average of 8,000 liters per second, north of Lake Constance -- thus feeding the Rhine. The European Water Divide thus in fact only applies for those waters that pass beyond this point, and only during the days of the year when the Danube carries enough water to survive the sink holes in the Donauversickerung. Since this enormous amount of underground water erodes much of its surrounding limestone, it is estimated that the Danube upper course will one day disappear entirely in favor of the Rhine, an event called Stream capture. ==Human history== The Danube basin contains sites of the earliest human cultures: the Danubian cultures include the Linear Pottery Cultures of the mid-Danube basin (see also Linear Ceramic culture) The Vucedol culture of the third millennium BC is famous for their ceramics. Later, many sites of the Vinca culture are sited along the Danube. == Cultural significance == [[Image:MariaValeriaBridge.jpg|thumb|left|At Esztergom and Štúrovo, the Danube separates Hungary from Slovakia.]] The Danube is mentioned in the title of a famous waltz by Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, ''The_Blue_Danube'' (''By the Beautiful Blue Danube''). The German tradition of landscape painting, the Danube school, was developed in the Danube valley in the 16th century. The most famous book describing the Danube ought to be Claudio Magris's masterpiece ''Danube'' (ISBN 1860468233). ==Notes== ¹ Length from the source of the Breg. ² Source of the Breg. ==External links== * [http://www.showcaves.com/english/de/karst/Donauversickerung.html Danube Sink] * [http://www.showcaves.com/english/de/springs/Aach.html Aachtopf spring] * Danube Basin [http://www.panda.org/graphics/fw-rivers/maps/DANUBE%20MAP.gif Map (GIF - 257 KB)], [http://pdf.wri.org/watersheds_2000/watersheds_europe_p2_38.pdf Map+info, PDF] * [http://www.danubecooperation.org Danube Portal] * [http://www.theister.com 'The Ister': A 2840km documentary film journey up the Danube] German rivers Austrian rivers Slovak rivers Hungarian rivers Rivers of Croatia Rivers of Serbia and Montenegro Bulgarian rivers Romanian rivers European geography Vojvodina Backa Banat ga:An Danóib nds:Donau
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__TOC__ == It is the only major European river to flow from west to east == "It is the only major European river to flow from west to east," says this article. Similarly, the Red River of the North is reputed to be the only major North American river to flow from south to north. But is that reputation really true? If I inserted an assertion in the article that all other rivers in Europe that flow from west to east are merely ''exceptions'' to the rule that the Danube is the only one, how soon would that be deleted, as was the similar statement I made about the Red River of the North? User:Michael Hardy 02:45 Mar 14, 2003 (UTC) :I guess the Ebro, the Po and the Dniester aren't major enough. Let's remove this remark.User:Markussep 21:44, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC) ---- Changed 'Budapesta' to 'Budapest' in figure caption. --User:Isk s 22:43, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC) ---- Hi! this page needs the significance of the Danube to Europe commerce. What did the Danube do? How did it effect European culture? (from the page) == Esperanto == Why do we have the name of Danube in Esperanto ? User:Bogdangiusca | User talk:Bogdangiusca 21:05, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC) : Why not / De ce nu? User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 20:38, 2005 Mar 4 (UTC) ::Why not? Because the beginning of the article is overloaded with multi-lingual information. I have reduced the names to those used in the countries through or past which the Danube flows. Other names, if wanted, can be found by consulting the various other-language wikipedias listed in the side bar. -- User:Picapica 12:24, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC) : Danube and :eo:Danubo starts with Danu. See #Ethymology User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 20:47, 2005 Mar 4 (UTC). === Etymology === * See the reference at Danu to Danube. Regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 20:38, 2005 Mar 4 (UTC) ==A way to mprove this article == This isn't nearly good enough for the ''Danube'' folks! Any editors fluent in some of the Danube's languages could make translations of the richer material in other Wikipedias. Don't fret about English idiom: give us the meat and the best of the External links, and we'll tweak the wording!
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Danube_(disambiguation)
Danube_(Paris_Metro)
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Danube_Delta
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Danube_River
Danube_River
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