The Danube

Author : Nick Thorpe
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300182248

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The magnificent Danube both cuts across and connects central Europe, flowing through and alongside ten countries: Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, and Germany. Travelling its full length from east to west, against the river’s flow, Nick Thorpe embarks on an inspiring year-long journey that leads to a new perspective on Europe today. Thorpe’s account is personal, conversational, funny, immediate, and uniquely observant—everything a reader expects in the best travel writing. Immersing himself in the Danube’s waters during daily morning swims, Thorpe likewise becomes immersed in the histories of the lands linked by the river. He observes the river’s ecological conditions, some discouraging and others hopeful, and encounters archaeological remains that whisper of human communities sustained by the river over eight millennia. Most fascinating of all are the ordinary and extraordinary people along the way—the ferrymen and fishermen, workers in the fields, shopkeepers, beekeepers, waitresses, smugglers and border policemen, legal and illegal immigrants, and many more. For readers who anticipate their own journeys on the Danube, as well as those who only dream of seeing the great river, this book will be a unique and treasured guide.

Author : John H Gill
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848327573

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Thunder on the Danube by John H Gill Pdf

The Franco-Austrian War of 1809 was NapoleonÍs last victorious war. He would win many battles in his future campaigns, but never again would one of EuropeÍs great powers lie broken at his feet. In this respect 1809 represents a high point of the First Empire yet at the same time NapoleonÍs armies were declining in quality and he was beginning to display the corrosive flaws that contributed to his downfall five years later. In this volume Gill tackles the political background to the war and the opening battles of Abensberg, EggmÙhl and Regensberg. He explores the motivations that prompted Austria to launch an offensive against France while Napoleon and many of his veterans were distracted in Spain. Though surprised by the timing of the Austrian attack on the 10th April, the French Emperor completely reversed a dire strategic situation with stunning blows that he called his ïmost brilliant and most skillful maneuversÍ. Following a breathless pursuit down the Danube valley, Napoleon occupied the palaces of the Habsburgs for the second time in four years. Basing his work on years of primary research and battlefield visits, Gill provides a thorough analysis replete with spectacular combat, diplomatic intrigue and the illustrious cast of characters that populated this extraordinary age. The concluding volumes will take the war to its conclusion, including NapoleonÍs first unequivocal repulse at the Battle of Espern-Essling, the titanic Battle of Wagram and the neglected struggle at Znaim that led to armistice.

Author : Victor Taki
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633863831

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Russia on the Danube by Victor Taki Pdf

One of the goals of Russia’s Eastern policy was to turn Moldavia and Wallachia, the two Romanian principalities north of the Danube, from Ottoman vassals into a controllable buffer zone and a springboard for future military operations against Constantinople. Russia on the Danube describes the divergent interests and uneasy cooperation between the Russian officials and the Moldavian and Wallachian nobility in a key period between 1812 and 1834. Victor Taki’s meticulous examination of the plans and memoranda composed by Russian administrators and the Romanian elite underlines the crucial consequences of this encounter. The Moldavian and Wallachian nobility used the Russian-Ottoman rivalry in order to preserve and expand their traditional autonomy. The comprehensive institutional reforms born out of their interaction with the tsar’s officials consolidated territorial statehood on the lower Danube, providing the building blocks of a nation state. The main conclusion of the book is that although Russian policy was driven by self-interest, and despite the Russophobia among a great part of the Romanian intellectuals, this turbulent period significantly contributed to the emergence, several decades later, of modern Romania.

Author : Charles Farkas
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438447599

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Vanished by the Danube by Charles Farkas Pdf

Germany's invasion of Hungary in 1944 marked the end of a culture that had dominated Central Europe from the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. In this poignant memoir, Charles Farkas offers a testament to this vanished way of life—its society, morality, personal integrity, wealth, traditions, and chivalry—as well as an eyewitness account of its destruction, begun at the hands of the Nazis and then completed under the heel of Soviet Communism. Farkas's recollections of growing up in Budapest, a city whose grandeur embraced—indeed spanned—the Danube River; his vivid descriptions of everyday life in Hungary before, during, and after World War II; and his ultimate flight to freedom in the United States remind us that behind the larger historical events of the past century are the stories of the individual men and women who endured and, ultimately, survived them.

Author : Andrew Beattie
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199768356

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The Danube by Andrew Beattie Pdf

A detailed history of the Danube river.

Author : Claudio Magris
Publisher : Random House
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781446433805

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Danube by Claudio Magris Pdf

'Neither a travel book, nor a vast prose poem, nor a history, nor philosophy, nor voyage of discovery, but often all at once' Independent on Sunday WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD FLANAGAN In this fascinating journey Claudio Magris, whose knowledge is encyclopaedic and whose curiosity limitless, guides his reader from the source of the Danube in the Bavarian hills through Austro-Hungary and the Balkans to the Black Sea. Along the way he raises the ghosts that inhabit the houses and monuments - from Ovid to Kafka and Canetti - and in so doing sets his finger on the pulse of Central Europe, the vital crucible of a culture that draws on influences of East and West, of Christendom and Islam.

Author : Zsuzsanna Ozsvath
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780815651109

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When the Danube Ran Red by Zsuzsanna Ozsvath Pdf

Opening with the ominous scene of one young school girl whispering an urgent account of Nazi horror to another over birthday cake, Ozsváth’s extraordinary and chilling memoir tells the story of her childhood in Hungary, living under the threat of the Holocaust. The setting is the summer of 1944 in Budapest during the time of the German occupation, when the Jews were confined to ghettos but not transported to Auschwitz in boxcars, as were the Hungarian Jewry living in the countryside. Provided with food and support by their former nanny, Erzsi, Ozsváth’s family stays in a ghetto house where a group of children play theater, tell stories to one another, invent games to pass time, and wait for liberation. In the fall of that year, however, things take a turn for the worse. Rounded up under horrific circumstances, and shot on the banks of the Danube by the thousands, the Jews of Budapest are threatened with immediate destruction. Ozsváth and her family survive because of Erzsi’s courage and humanity. Cheating the watching eyes of the munderers, she brings them food and runs with them from house to house under heavy bombardment in the streets. As a scholar, critic, and translator, Ozsváth has written extensively about Holocaust literature and the Holocaust in Hungary. Now, for the first time, she records her own history in this clear-eyed, moving account. When the Danube Ran Red combines an exceptional grounding in Hungarian history with the pathos of a survivor, and the eloquence of a poet to present a truly singular work.

Author : William Beattie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Danube River
ISBN : BSB:BSB10803931

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The Danube by William Beattie Pdf

Author : Mitja Brilly
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789048134236

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Hydrological Processes of the Danube River Basin by Mitja Brilly Pdf

The Danube River Basin is shared by 19 countries and there is no river basin in the world shared by so many nations. Europe’s second largest river basin with a total 2 area of about 800,000 km is also home to 83 million people of different cultures, languages and historical backgrounds. Management of common water sources and overcoming dif?culties caused by droughts and ?oods requires co-operation between the countries. In 1971 these c- mon interests stimulated the hydrologists of – at that time – eight Danube countries to begin regional co- operation in the framework of the International Hydrological Decade of UNESCO. The result of this research was The Hydrological Monograph of the Danube and its Catchment, which was published in 1986. Since 1975 this co-operation has continued under the umbrella of the International Hydrological Programme (IHP) of UNESCO. In the past 20 years political turbulence has caused an increase in the number of countries, making the co-operation dif?cult at times.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004335448

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Across the Danube: Southeastern Europeans and Their Travelling Identities (17th–19th C.) by Anonim Pdf

The Danube has always been a border and a bridge. Between the 17th and the 19th centuries, commercial networks were formed between the Ottoman Empire and Central and Eastern Europe creating diaspora communities and connecting the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, and the Continental world of commerce.

Author : Constantin Ardeleanu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004425965

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The European Commission of the Danube, 1856-1948 by Constantin Ardeleanu Pdf

The history of the world’s second international organisation, an innovative techno-political institution established by Europe’s Concert of Powers to remove insecurity from the Lower Danube.

Author : Jeannie Meekins
Publisher : Learning Island
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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14 Fun Facts About the Danube by Jeannie Meekins Pdf

The Danube is a romantic river. It begins in the Black Forest of Germany, slashes gorges through the mountains and meanders along broad plains. Many castles and palaces have been built along its banks. Many cities have been built, destroyed and rebuilt. A truly international river, it is a source of travel and trade for many European countries. Its basin collects water from many more before emptying into one of the largest deltas and national parks in the world. How much do you know about this European river? Do you know: How many countries does the Danube River run through? Which mountain range grew around the Danube River? How often does the Danube River freeze? The oldest castle in the world sits along the Danube. Which castle is it? What are Danube Pebbles? Find out the answers to these questions and more and amaze your family and friends with these fun facts. Ages 8 and up. All measurements in American and metric. LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15-Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices to read, from classic stories, to mysteries, to books of knowledge. Many books are appropriate for hi-lo readers. Open the world of reading to a child by having them read for 15 minutes a day.

Author : Jeannie Meekins
Publisher : Learning Island
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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14 Fun Facts About the Danube: A 15-Minute Book by Jeannie Meekins Pdf

The Danube is a romantic river. It begins in the Black Forest of Germany, slashes gorges through the mountains and meanders along broad plains. Many castles and palaces have been built along its banks. Many cities have been built, destroyed and rebuilt. A truly international river, it is a source of travel and trade for many European countries. Its basin collects water from many more before emptying into one of the largest deltas and national parks in the world. How much do you know about this European river? Do you know: How many countries does the Danube River run through? Which mountain range grew around the Danube River? How often does the Danube River freeze? The oldest castle in the world sits along the Danube. Which castle is it? What are Danube Pebbles? Find out the answers to these questions and more and amaze your family and friends with these fun facts. Ages 8 and up. All measurements in American and metric. The Educational Version has activities that meet Common Core Curriculum Standards. LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15-Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices to read, from classic stories, to mysteries, to books of knowledge. Many books are appropriate for hi-lo readers. Open the world of reading to a child by having them read for 15 minutes a day.

Author : Victor Spinei
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047428800

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The Romanians and the Turkic Nomads North of the Danube Delta from the Tenth to the Mid-Thirteenth Century by Victor Spinei Pdf

The present volume deals with the course and effects of migrations in the east and south- east of Europe during the period between the tenth and the thirteenth century. The author’s special focus is on Romanian communities and on nomadic tribes that came from the steppes and penetrated into the area north of the Danube Delta.

Author : Marina Polvay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0781808065

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All Along the Danube: Recipes from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria by Marina Polvay Pdf

For novices and gourmets, this unique cookbook offers a tempting variety of Central European dishes from the shores of the Danube River, bringing Old World flavour to today's dishes. Including such favourites as: Black Forest Pork Roast; Housekove Knedliky (Bread Dumplings); Hungarian Goulash; Spinach Zagora Style (from Bulgaria); and Mititei (Romanian Sausages) this cookbook spans the range of home cooking. Along with a special chapter, Christmas Along the Danube, which covers holiday specialities of all the countries, the book also includes black and white photographs of menus, shots of regional interest, and maps and illustrations throughout. A new appendix includes information about classic wines from central European countries like Germany, Austria and Hungary.