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The Danube Page 39

Bölcs, Sándor, thatcher (i)

  Boldizsár, Eszter, paprika grower (i)

  boomerang, prehistoric (i)

  Bor, Serbia (i)

  borders (i)

  Croatian-Serbian (i)

  Bosnia (i)

  Bosniaks, Hungary (i)

  Bosnian war (i)

  Botez, Eugeniu (Jean Bart), Europolis (i)

  Bozhinova, Stela, director of Persina Nature Park (i)

  bragă (hop drink) (i)

  Brǎila, Romania (i)

  Brâncuşi, Constantin

  sculptor (i), (ii)

  sculptures (i)

  story of master carver (i)

  Branković, Durad, Serbian ruler (i), (ii)

  Braşov, Romania, Red Flag Truck Factory (i)

  Bratislava, Slovakia (i)

  Hungarian kings and (i)

  Petržalka (i)

  Brătianu, Romania, ferry to Galaţi (i)

  Brecht, Bertolt, poet (i), (ii)n2

  Breg, River (i)

  Bregach, River (i)

  Brici, Vasile, beekeeper (i)

  bridges

  Budapest (i)

  Cernavodă (i)

  new (i)

  Novi Sad (i)

  oldest stone (Regensburg) (i)

  Ruse (i), (ii)

  Bronze Age (i), (ii)

  Broz, environmental organisation (i), (ii)

  Bucharest, Philip Morris tobacco factory (i)

  Bucharest, Treaty of (1812) (i)

  Bucur, Ionel, director of nuclear power plant (i), (ii)

  Buda

  Ottoman loss of (i)

  siege of (i)

  thermal baths (i)

  Budapest

  author's cycle accident (i), (ii)

  Freedom Bridge (i)

  Gellért Hill (i), (ii), (iii)

  thermal springs (i), (ii)

  Bulgaria

  and Alans (i)

  conversion to Christianity (i)

  currency (i)

  EU funding for (i)

  National Agricultural Party (i)

  national character (i)

  Roma people (i)

  Turkish rule (i)

  Bulgars (i)

  Buna, River (i)

  Burebista, Dacian king (i)

  burials, prehistoric (i)

  Byzantium, rebuilding of Roman fortresses (i)

  C.A. Rosetti village, Romania (i)

  Caesar Augustus, Emperor (i)

  Cǎlǎraşi, Romania (i)

  Museum of the Lower Danube (i)

  Calderash Gypsies (i), (ii)

  camels, Koloseum Circus (i)

  candles, at Sari Saltuq's tomb (i)

  Canetti, Elias (i)

  Memoirs (i)

  Carnuntum, battle of (c.170) (i)

  Carol I, King of Romania (i)

  Carol II, King of Romania (i), (ii)

  carp (i), (ii)

  Carpathian mountains (i)

  Cassius Dio, Roman historian (i)

  catfish (i), (ii)

  Ceauşescu, Nicolae (i), (ii)

  and Lake Razim (i)

  visit to Danube canal (i)

  Celts

  Bratislava (i)

  Budapest (i)

  iron-working (i)

  oppidum at Kelheim (i)

  Cerna, River (i)

  Cernavodă, Romania

  Angel Saligny bridge (i)

  figurines (i), (ii)

  nuclear power station (i), (ii)

  Červena Voda, Bulgaria, (i)

  Četaţii Tricole, Romania (i)

  Chapman, John, archaeologist (i)

  char (saibling) (i)

  charcoal-burners (i)

  Charles of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, prince of Romania (i)

  Charles IV, king of Hungary (i), (ii)n13

  Chechens, in Austria (i)

  cheese, brindza (i)

  chemical fertilisers (i)

  Chera, Constantin, historian (i)

  Chernobyl nuclear disaster (1986) (i)

  Christianity

  arrival of (i), (ii), (iii)

  Hungary (i)

  Cioban, Virgiliu, Galaţi Harbour Authority (i)

  Ciurunga, Andrei, ‘Canalul’ (i)

  climate change (i), (ii), (iii)

  and bees (i)

  drought (i), (ii)

  Colomann, Irish (Scottish) pilgrim (1012) (i)

  colours of the Danube (i), (ii)

  blue (i), (ii)

  dark green (i), (ii)

  at Donaueschingen (i)

  green (i), (ii)

  silver (i), (ii)

  silver green (i), (ii)

  Comecon (Soviet economic union) (i)

  communist era

  agriculture (i), (ii)

  building of Danube canal (i)

  Bulgaria (i), (ii)

  destruction of water-mills (i)

  industry (i)

  nostalgia for (i)

  Communist Party, Romanian (i), (ii)

  conservation projects

  and flood management (i)

  new gravel banks (i)

  reforestation in Donau‐Auen national park (i)

  restoration of meanders (i), (ii)

  wetland forest restoration, Grünau (i)

  Constanţa, Romania, Natural History and Archaeology Museum (i)

  Constantine VII, Emperor (i), (ii)n4

  Constantinople, fall of (1453) (i)

  copper (i), (ii), (iii)

  Neolithic workings (i), (ii)

  smelting kilns (i)

  Copper Age civilisation (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  copper mines, Serbia (i)

  copper stills (i)

  cormorants (i)

  black (i)

  Coronelli, Vincenzo, astrologer (i)

  Cossacks, Don (i)

  Cousteau, Jacques (i)

  Cremer, Fritz, sculptor (i)

  Crete, Minoan culture (i), (ii)

  Crimean War (i), (ii)

  Crisan, Romania (i)

  Croatia (i)

  war with Serbia (i)

  cross, stone (i)

  Crusade, Third (i)

  Csallóközaranyos, Slovakia (i)

  Csepel island (i), (ii)

  paper mill (i)

  Cseres, Tibor, author (i)

  Čunovo, Slovakia, storage lake (i), (ii), (iii)

  Cuza, Alexander, prince of Romania (i)

  Czarny, Zawisza (Black Knight) (i)

  Częstochowa, Poland, Black Madonna of (i)

  Dacian people (i)

  fishing for sturgeon (i)

  and Getae (i)

  Romans and (i), (ii)

  Trajan's conquest of (i), (ii)

  Dacian runic script (i), (ii)

  Damat Ali Pasha

  Ottoman commander (i)

  tomb (i)

  Danube canal (i), (ii)

  Danube Circle (i)

  Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve (i), (ii)

  Danube Delta Research Centre, Tulcea (i)

  Danube gorge (Kelheim to Weltenburg) (i)

  see also Iron Gates

  Danube, River

  blockage (1999–2003) (i), (ii), (iii)

  channels (i)

  Chilia branch (north) (i)

  course changes (i)

  delta xiii–xxi (i), (ii)

  frozen (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  highest navigable point (Kelheim) (i)

  management (i)

  meanders (i), (ii), (iii)

  navigability (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  new bridges (i)

  oldest stone bridge (i)

  Sfântu Gheorghe branch (south) (i), (ii), (iii)

  shallows and islands (Szigetköz and Csallóköz region) (i), (ii)

  Sulina branch (middle) (i), (ii)

  as trade route (i)

  water levels (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  see also colours; floods; islands

  ‘Danube script’ (i), (ii), (iii)

  and Vinča culture (i)

  Danube snail (
theodoxus danubialis) (i)

  ‘Danube Temple’, Donaueschingen (i)

  Danube-Rhein-Main canal (i)

  Danubiana modern art gallery, near Čunovo, Slovakia (i)

  d'Aramont, Gabriel, ambassador (i)

  Dávid, Géza, historian (i)

  Decebal, chief of the Dacians (i), (ii), (iii)

  Demirel, Sultan, President of Turkey (i)

  Densusiana, Nicolae, Prehistoric Dacia (i)

  Dervent, Romania, monastery (i)

  dervishes

  Bektashi (i), (ii)

  Khalveti (i)

  Derzhavin, Gavrila, poet (i)

  Devin, Slovakia, castle (i)

  Dizdar, Mak, poet (i)

  Dobrogea region (Danube delta) (i)

  early populations (i)

  wind turbines (i), (ii)

  Donau‐Auen national park, Slovakia (i)

  Donaueschingen (i)

  Furstenberg park (i)

  Dorin, Nistor, customs officer (i)

  doves (i)

  Dragan, Iosif Constantin, businessman (i)

  Drava, River (i), (ii)

  Dresch, Mihály, Jazz Quartet (i)

  dress

  Muslim (i)

  traditional costumes (i)

  Drin, White and Black rivers (i)

  Drina, River (i)

  Drobina, Kristijan, Ovcára memorial farm (i)

  drought (i)

  Hungary (i)

  Dulev, Petar, mayor of Belene (i)

  Dunafalva, Hungary (i)

  Dunaföldvár, Hungary (i)

  Dunajská Streda, museum (i)

  Dunaszekcső, Hungary (i), (ii)

  Dunaújvános (Pentele), Hungary (i)

  Dürnstein, Austria, castle (i)

  Durrman, Alexander, archaeologist (i)

  eagles (i)

  white-tailed (i), (ii)

  earthquakes

  1977: (i), (ii)

  epicentre at Vrancea (i)

  Eastern Europe

  migrants from (i)

  post-communist (i), (ii)

  Ecoglasnost movement (i)

  Edirne, Turkey (i)

  Eichmann, Adolf (i)

  Eliade, Mircea, historian (i)

  Eliot, T.S. (i)

  Emma, Queen of Holland (i)

  Engur, Ahmed (i)

  on Ada Kaleh (i)

  Enseler, Volker, long-distance traveller (i)

  Erdut, Treaty of (1995) (i)

  Eselniţa, Romania (i), (ii)

  Esztergom, María Valéria Bridge (i)

  Eugen, Prince of Savoy (i), (ii)

  Europe, Danube's influence on (i), (ii)

  European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (i)

  European Commission (1856) (i), (ii)

  European Union

  anti-pollution projects (i)

  subsidies for vineyards (i)

  tobacco taxes (i)

  fairies (i)

  falcons, red-footed (i)

  famine, post-war (1947) (i)

  Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (i)

  ferries across the river (i), (ii), (iii)

  cable ferry at Ottensheim (i)

  near Čunovo storage lake (i)

  Ram (i)

  Fetislam, Serbia, Ottoman fortress (i)

  figurines

  female (i), (ii)

  miniature clay (i)

  The Thinker and the Goddess (Cernavodă) (i), (ii), (iii)

  First World War (i)

  Hungary (i)

  Fischer, Josef, fish farmer (i)

  fish

  salmon (i)

  spawning areas (i), (ii)

  see also carp; catfish; char; pike; sturgeon

  fish farming, salmon (i)

  fish soup (i)

  fishing (i), (ii), (iii)

  Baja (Hungary) (i)

  csontos kece nets (Hungary) (i)

  GhindǎreŞti (i)

  herring (i), (ii)

  illegal methods (i), (ii)

  quotas (i)

  Slovakia (i)

  for sturgeon (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Fitcheto, Kolyo, architect (i)

  flint, obsidian (i)

  floodplains

  Kopački Rit forest (i)

  Slovakia (i)

  floods and flood management (i), (ii)

  controlled (i), (ii), (iii)

  Florescu, Gabriel, former Romanian merchant navy (i)

  Florianus, Holy, early Christian martyr (i)

  fog, in the delta (i)

  folksongs

  Bulgarian (i), (ii)

  Transylvanian (i)

  forty, religious significance of (i)

  France, and Ottoman Empire (i)

  Frank, Georg, manager of Donau‐Auen national park (i)

  Franz Ferdinand, Archduke, assassination in Belgrade (1914) (i), (ii)

  fröccs (Hungarian drink) (i)

  Froissart, Jean, chronicler (i)

  Fronea, Dorel, Romanian customs (i)

  Fruška Gora hills (i)

  Fukushima, Japan, nuclear disaster (2010) (i), (ii)

  furniture, painted (i)

  Gabčikovo-Nagymaros hydroelectric dams (i), (ii)

  Čunovo storage lake (i), (ii)

  Gabčikovo dam (i)

  Nagymaros dam (i), (ii), (iii)

  Slovak ‘C’ variant scheme (i), (ii)

  state contract (1977) (i), (ii)

  Galaţi, Romania (i), (ii)

  History Museum (i)

  steel mills (i), (ii), (iii)

  Galgóczi, István, cookery book (i)

  game, prehistoric trade in (i)

  Gaydarska, Bisserka, archaeologist (i)

  Gazi Ali Pasha, governor of Buda (i)

  geese (i)

  Geissler, Siegfried, conservationist (i)

  Genç, Mehmed, historian (i)

  geomancy (i)

  George, Saint (i), (ii), (iii)

  Gherghişan, Stelicǎ, mayor of Vǎcǎreni (i)

  Gerjen, Hungary (i)

  Germany (i), (ii)

  Grünau wetland forest (i)

  hydroelectric power (i)

  Passau (i)

  Ulm (i)

  Gheorghiu-Dej, Gheorghe, Communist Party leader (i), (ii)

  Ghindǎreşti, Romania, Russian village (i)

  Gimbutas, Marija

  and Atlantis myth (i)

  on Lepenski Vir stones (i), (ii)

  use of term ‘Old Europe’ (i), (ii), (iii)

  Gímes, Miklós, journalist (i)

  Giurgiu, Romania, abandoned dogs (i)

  Giurgiuleşti, Ukraine (i)

  Gizella, Princess of Bavaria (i)

  Glavašević, Siniša, radio reporter (i)

  Glykon (snake god) (i)

  godwits, black-tailed (i)

  gold (i), (ii), (iii)

  Neolithic working of (i)

  washing (i)

  Golubac, Serbia (i), (ii)

  granite quarries

  Mauthausen (i)

  Măcin (i)

  grave goods

  Celtic (i)

  prehistoric (i)

  graves

  absence of Vinča (i)

  trampled by horses (i)

  Great Britain

  railway building in Romania (i)

  shipping (i)

  Great War Island (i)

  Greek Orthodoxy (i)

  Greeks, ancient

  colonies (i)

  colonists of Histria (i)

  wine (i)

  Greeks, modern

  in Galaţi (i)

  in Sulina (i)

  Gregor, Father (i)

  Greifenstein, Austria, power-station (i)

  Grein, Austria (i)

  grey herons (i), (ii)

  Grgeteg monastery, Serbia (i)

  Grimsing, Austria (i)

  Grünau, wetland forest restoration (i)

  water fly-over (i)

  Gül Baba, Bektashi monk (i), (ii)

  Gumelniţa culture (i)

  gypsies
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  scrap metal collection (i), (ii)

  see also Calderash Gypsies; Roma people

  Haarmann, Harald, archaeologist (i)

  Habsburg, house of (i)

  Hadrian, Emperor (i), (ii)

  Hadžić, Goran, war criminal (i), (ii), (iii)

  Hainburg dam, planned (i), (ii)

  Hajdú, Éva, on Ada Kaleh (i)

  Hajji Bektash (i)

  Hallein, Germany (i)

  Hallstatt, Austria, salt mines (i), (ii)

  Hamangia culture (i), (ii)

  Hartley, Charles, canalisation of Sulina branch (i), (ii)

  Hasluck, F.W., orientalist (i)

  Hasluck, R.W., historian (i)

  hats and headgear (i)

  Helemba Island (i)

  Helios and Ileana Cosinzeana, folk tale (i)

  Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (i)

  Henry the Proud, Duke (i)

  Heraclitus (i)

  Hercules (i), (ii)n20

  Herodotus (i), (ii)

  herring (i), (ii)

  Histria (i)

  Hitler, Adolf (i)

  Hobiţa, Romania (i)

  Hölderlin, Friedrich, ‘Der Ister’ (i), (ii)n20

  Hoppál, Mihály, Hungarian writer (i)

  horses, Bronze Age (i)

  ‘howling’ (i)

  Hundstorfer, Rudolf, Austrian Labour Minister (i)

  Hungary (i), (ii), (iii)

  1956 revolution (i), (ii)

  and Austria (i), (ii)

  and Crown of St Stephen (i), (ii)

  deforestation (i)

  exiles (i)

  and Nagymaros dam (i)

  and Ottoman Empire (i)

  river transport (i), (ii)

  and Slovakia (i)

  state contract with Czechoslovakia (i), (ii)

  traditional costumes (i)

  war of independence (1848) (i)

  Huns (i), (ii), (iii)

  Hunyadi, János, Hungarian regent (i), (ii)

  Hussars (i)

  hydroelectric dams

  Austria (i), (ii)

  fish bypasses (i)

  Germany (i)

  Melk (i), (ii)

  see also Gabčikovo-Nagymaros; Iron Gates

  Ialtus, Ruse, Roman fortress (i)

  Ibn Battuta, traveller (i)

  Ignat, Sorin, vineyard manager (i), (ii)

  Ikervár, Hungary, mulberry trees (i)

  Iliya, Pastor (i)

  Ilz, River (i)

  industrialisation

  communist era (i)

  post-communist (i)

  Ingolstadt, Germany (i)

  Inn, River (i)

  Iron Curtain, fall of (i)

  Iron Gates dam (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  construction (i)

  and destruction of Ada Kaleh island (i)

  effect on sturgeon (i), (ii)

  first (i)

  Iron Gates gorge (i)

  Trajan and (i)

  iron ore mines (i)

  Isaccea, Romania (i)

  war memorial (i)

  Islam (i), (ii)

  and Bektashi dervishes (mystics) (i), (ii), (iii)

  feast of Bayram (i)

  radical (i), (ii)

  in Romania (i)

  tombstones in Vidin (i)

  islands (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Ada Kaleh (i), (ii), (iii)

  Pacuiul de Soare (i), (ii)

  Ivan, Nikita, fisherman (i)

  Izmail, Ukraine (i), (ii)