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The Danube River Basin is divided into three main parts, separated by "gates" where the river is forced to cut through mountainous sections: [24] Upper Basin, from the headwaters to the Devín Gate. Middle Basin, usually called the Pannonian basin or Carpathian Basin, between the Devín Gate and the Iron Gates.
Commemorative plaque at a lighthouse in Sulina, Tulcea county, Romania, built by the European Commission along with river dykes and completed in November 1870. The European Commission of the Danube was the first — and for a long time the only — international body to have serious police and juridical powers over private vessels and individual people, and it was seen in 1930, for example, by ...
Axis control of the Danube was brought about by force of arms, through annexation of Austria, invasion of Yugoslavia and of the Soviet Union and treaties with the Kingdom of Romania and Hungary, but a legal cover was provided through moves that resulted in a new international order on the river beginning in 1940 and ending in 1945.
The wrecks of explosives-laden Nazi ships sunk in the River Danube during World War Two have emerged near Serbia's river port town of Prahovo, after a drought in July and August that saw the river ...
In Vienna, the Danube river up until 1870, was almost totally unregulated. The river flowed through wetlands on the left (east) bank of today's Danube course. Villages like Jedlesee, Floridsdorf and Stadlau that were near the former main branch of the Danube were particularly susceptible to flooding.
Map of most important tributaries of the Danube. This is a list of tributaries of the Danube by order of entrance.. The Danube is Europe's second-longest river.It starts 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 generally eastwards for a distance of some 2,850 km ...
The Danube river, emanating from the Abnoba mountains, was considered to be a river or spring goddess. In contrast to the more mythical role, the hydrological significance of the source of the Danube is notably small; this is because a significant portion of the Danube's headwater is channelled into the Rhine , both above and below Tuttlingen ...
The Danube Commission (French: Commission du Danube; German: Donaukommission; Russian: Дунайская комиссия, romanized: Dunayskaya komissiya; Ukrainian: Дунайська комісія, romanized: Dunayska komisiya) is concerned with the maintenance and improvement of navigation conditions of the Danube River, from its source in Germany to its outlets in Romania and Ukraine ...