Danube - geography.
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Danube - geography. Danube (ancient Danubius, and in the lower part of its course, Ister; German Donau; Slovak Dunaj; Hungarian Duna; Serbo-Croatian and Bulgarian Dunav; Romanian Dun?rea; Ukrainian Dunay), second longest river in Europe, and one of the principal transportation arteries on the continent. It is the only major European river to flow from west to east. It rises in the Black Forest region of Germany and flows in a generally easterly direction for a distance of about 2850 km (1770 mi), emptying, on the Romanian coast, into the Black Sea. The delta of the Danube is a region of desolate marshes and swamps, broken by tree-covered elevations. The Danube is navigable by ocean vessels to Br?ila, Romania, and by river craft as far as Ulm in Germany, a distance of 2,600 km (1,600 mi). About 60 of the approximately 300 tributaries of the Danube are navigable. The principal ones, in the order in which they merge with the Danube, include the Lech, Isar, Inn, Morava, Váh, Raab (Rába), Drava (Drau), Tisza, Sava, Siret, and Prut. The Danube basin, more than 777,00...
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- La capitale de la République d'Autriche, ville-carrefour située sur le Danube, est une ancienne forteresse, liée depuis le XIII e siècle à la dynastie des Habsbourg et bastion avancé de la chrétienté.
- Wienerwald (« Forêt viennoise », en allemand), massif boisé de l'extrémité orientale des Alpes, dominant Vienne et le Danube, culminant à 890 m au Schöpfl.
- Quades, en latin Quadi, peuple de la Germanie, qui habitait au nord du Danube, dans l'actuelle Moravie.
- Portes de Fer, e n serbe Djerdap, n om donné aux gorges des Cazane, près d'Or? ova, que le Danube franchit entre les Carpates du Sud (Alpes de Transylvanie), en Roumanie, et la Stara Planina, extrémité du massif des Balkans, en Serbie.