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The Danube Bike Trail starts at the origin of the Danube and ends where the river flows into the Black Sea. It is divided into four sections: Donaueschingen–Passau (559 km or 347 mi) Passau–Vienna (340 km or 210 mi) Vienna–Budapest (306 km or 190 mi) Budapest–Black Sea (1,670 km or 1,040 mi)
Clwyd: Welsh meaning "hurdle" Danube: Latin Danuvius, Dacian: Donaris, from Iranian (Scythian or Sarmatian) dānu-"river", of Indo-European origin; Dnieper: from Old East Slavic Дънѣпръ (Dŭněprŭ), with further origins disputed; Dvina: from Estonian väin, large and slowly flowing river; Dobra: from Celtic *dubro "dark": MIr.
Danu is an ancient Scythian word meaning "river". The commonly proposed etymology of the names of the Danube River , Dnieper River , Dniester River , Don River , and Donets River . Danu may also refer to:
As early as 1847 the following definition can already be found in the Universallexikon des Großherzogtums Baden (Universal Lexicon of the Grand Duchy of Baden): "Danube, the biggest river of Germany, rises at the Martinskapelle in a wild and lonely area of the Black Forest, is called Brege at its origin and forms the river Danube in ...
An alternative Romanian name for the last part of the route is Defileul Dunării, literally "Danube Gorge". In Serbian, the gorge is known as Đerdap (Ђердап; [d͡ʑě̞rdaːp] ), with the last part named Đerdapska klisura (Ђердапска клисура; [d͡ʑě̞rdaːpskaː klǐsura] , meaning Đerdap Gorge) from the Byzantine ...
The origin of the word Balkan is obscure; ... Historical names and meaning. ... Its northern boundary is often given as the Danube, ...
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 ...
Dacia (/ ˈ d eɪ ʃ ə /, DAY-shə; Latin: [ˈd̪aː.ki.a]) was the land inhabited by the Dacians, its core in Transylvania, stretching to the Danube in the south, the Black Sea in the east, and the Tisza in the west.