The Danube River is a unique place reserved in world history. It has been featured important events in world history in areas such as natural history, ecological, political, economic, cultural and has even lent its name to the famous composer Johann Strauss waltz The Blue Danube.
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It is also the longest in the European Union -2.860 kilometers and one of the longest in Europe, only surpassed by the Volga. This long European river crosses the territory of ten countries, where they take a different name.
In Germany it is known as Donau, Duna in Hungary, Croatia and Dunav in Eslovania as Donavan, Czech Republic Dunai and other variants as in Bulgaria, Slovakia, Serbia, Romania and Russia. The list extends even further if we add those countries that receive the drainage basin of the Danube, these countries are Italy, Poland, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, the Republic of Macedonia and Albania.
It is thought that its name comes from the Celtic Danu “, which means flying. There is another theory which postulates that the root of the name comes from an Iranian word which has helped to give names to other rivers that flow into the Dead Sea, such as the Don, the Donetsk, the Dnieper and the Dniester.
The Danube is formed by the union of German rivers and Breg Brigach the height of the town Donaueschingen. From the German Black Forest and is known as the Danube and covers several countries in Central and Eastern Europe before emptying into the Black Sea through the Danube Delta, shared by Romania and Ukraine.
The importance of the Danube in the story starts about 3000 BC ago, when he was the ideal place for cultures to be developed as Vucedol and Vinka. He then served as a frontier of the Roman Empire around 200 AD We also used various Germanic tribes attacked Rome. Also of significance during the Crusades, be an important avenue to quickly reach the Holy Land.
In modern times has often played the dominance over the river, however, has managed to avoid this by agreements signed by member countries of the ICPD, the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube.
This organization was founded in 1998 with the aim to protect, promote and coordinate sustainable and equitable water management, including conservation, improvement and rational use for the benefit of countries and peoples who are part of the Danube. However, treaties that have preserved the integrity of the river back to the Treaty of Paris in 1856, the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, among others.
The Danube is a source of drinking water for about ten million people, also works as a commercial transportation route of the European Union and is forced route for tourists visiting the old continent.
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