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Danube

Second longest of European rivers, rising on the eastern slopes of the Black Forest, and flowing 2,858 km/1,776 mi across Europe to enter the Black Sea in Romania by a swampy delta.

The head of river navigation is Ulm, in Baden-Württemberg; Braila, Romania, is the limit for ocean-going ships. Cities on the Danube include Linz, Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest, Belgrade, Ruse, Braila, and Galati. A canal connects the Danube with the River Main, and thus with the Rhine river system. In 1992 the river was diverted in Slovakia to feed the controversial Gabcikovo Dam.

In February 2000, the Danube was hit by a cyanide spillage from a Romanian gold-mine in what threatened to be the worst ecological disaster in Europe since the 1986 nuclear accident in Chernobyl, Ukraine. Hungarian and Serbian officials embarked upon a massive clean-up operation as the cyanide approached the Danube from a tributary in Romania, travelled down river, wiping out plant and animal life, and was spreading south towards the Black Sea.



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Also, as we are masters of Ulm, we cannot be deprived of the advantage of commanding both sides of the Danube, so that should the enemy not cross the Lech, we can cross the Danube, throw ourselves on his line of communications, recross the river lower down, and frustrate his intention should he try to direct his whole force against our faithful ally.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
When the Potentate from the Danube made his appearance, the conversation was carried on in the French language, and the Lady Bareacres and the younger ladies found, to their farther mortification, that Mrs.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
Here fluttered many an outland pennon, bearing symbol and blazonry from the banks of the Danube, the wilds of Lithuania and the mountain strongholds of Hungary; for chivalry was of no clime and of no race, nor was any land so wild that the fame and name of the prince had not sounded through it from border to border.
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