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Jáki, Gabor, president of Hungarian Shipping Association (i)

  Jaróka, Livia, Hungarian Roma MEP (i)

  Jasna Góra monastery (i)

  Jason and the Argonauts (i), (ii), (iii)

  Jews

  in Bulgaria (i)

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  Jiu, River (i)

  John Nepomuk, Saint (i)

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  Jókai, Mór, Golden Man (i)

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  Jovanović, Boris, archaeologist (i)

  József, Attila, poet (i)

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  Justinian the Great, Byzantine Emperor (i)

  Jutta, wood carver (i)

  Kádár, János, Hungarian prime minister (i)

  Kadri, Ali, Ada Kaleh businessman (i)

  Kalemegdan fortress

  Belgrade (i)

  military museum (i)

  Kálmán, Emmerich (Imre), composer (i)

  Kalocsa, Hungary, Paprika Museum (i)

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  Kanizsai, Dorottya, heroine of Mohács (i)

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  forest (i)

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  Kepler, Johannes, astronomer (i)

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  Kinross, Patrick (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Kirilov, Nikolai

  Roma intellectual (i), (ii)

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  former caviar factory (i)

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  Konstantinov, Aleko

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  market (i)

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  pollution (i)

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  Metternich, Count (i), (ii)n12

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  Mladić, Ratko (i)

  capture of (i)

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  Nagy, László, director of Baja port (i)

  Nagymaros, Hungary (i)

  see also Gabcikovo-Nagymaros hydroelectric dam

  NATO, bombardment of Serbia (1999) (i), (ii), (iii)

  Natovi, Tseko, and family (i)

  Neagu, Marian, museum curator (i)

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  Nedjelkov, Danail, Danube Commission (i)

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  Negru Voda, Romania (i)

  Nenov, Nikolai, museum director (i), (ii)

 
Neolithic period (i)

  figurines (i)

  meat trade (i)

  Vinča culture (i)

  see also Copper Age

  Nicholas II, Tsar (i)

  Nicholas, Saint (i)

  Nicolae, Nicolas de, Orientation et Navigation Orientale (1568) (i)

  Niculiţel, Romania (i)

  vineyards (i), (ii)

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  Nikolov, Milan, Roma politician (i)

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  Nikopol (Nikopolis), Bulgaria (i), (ii), (iii)

  Nikopolis, battle of (1396) (i), (ii)

  Niš, Serbia, NATO bombardment (i)

  Njegić, Jovan, Vukovar (i)

  Noricum, Roman province (i)

  Norway, joint research project with Romania on sturgeon (i), (ii), (iii)

  Novi Sad, Serbia (i)

  Beška bridge (i)

  Liberty bridge (i)

  Petrovaradin fortress (i)

  Varadin bridge (i)

  Nussdorf, battle of (1683) (i)

  obsidian flint (i)

  Obstle, Gerhard, organic farmer (i)

  ‘Old Europe’ (i), (ii), (iii)

  Olescu, Vasile, leper (i)

  Olt, River (i), (ii)

  Oniga, Doru, hotel owner (i), (ii)

  Oniga, Nicolae (i), (ii)

  Oprisan, Adrian, reed cutter (i), (ii)

  Orbán, Viktor, Hungarian prime minister (i)

  Ordas, Hungary (i)

  Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) (i)

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  Osman, Erwin, boatman (i)

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  Ottoman Empire (i), (ii)

  conquest of Hungary (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  conquest of Serbia (i)

  loss of Hungary and Transylvania (i)

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  Ottoman Turks (i)

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  oyster shells (spondylus gaederopus), prehistoric trade in (i), (ii)

  Pacuiul de Soare island (i), (ii)

  paddle-steamer Tudor Vladimirescu (i)

  Paks, Hungary (i)

  ‘Pale Mother Germany’

  poem (i)

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  paprika (i)

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  museum (i)

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  Perényi, Ferenc, bishop (i)

  Perkov, Nikolai, politician (i)

  Persina Nature Park, Belene (i)

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  Petőfi, Sándor, poet (i)

  Petrescu, Daniel, guide (i), (ii)

  Petrics, Sóma Orlai, painter (i)

  Petrovaradin, Serbia

  battle for (1716) (i), (ii), (iii)

  fortress (i)

  museum (i)

  Pied Piper of Hamelin story (i)

  pike (i), (ii), (iii)

  pike-perch (i), (ii), (iii)

  Piteşti, Romania (i)

  plague (i)

  Plavi, Momir

  forest worker (i)

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  Plevna (Pleven), Bulgaria (i)

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  Plopu village, Romania (i)

  Plovdiv, Bulgaria (i)

  plovers, little ringed (i)

  Poarta Albǎ, Romania (i)

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  Poiana Sibiului region (i)

  Pokraina, Bulgaria (i)

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  chemical spillages (i), (ii)

  industrial (i)

  Ponicova cave (i)

  pop music

  Ruse, Bulgaria (i)

  Serbia (i)

  Popescu, Ovidiu, curator of Brancusi's works (i)

  poplar trees (i), (ii)

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  Popov, Vasile, Danube stories (i), (ii)

  Poreč island (i)

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  pottery

  Hungarian (i)

  Neolithic Vinča (i)

  prehistoric (i), (ii)

  Roman oil-lamps (i)

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  Tripol'ye-Cucuteni culture (i)

  Prachatice (Prachatitz), Czech Republic (i)

  prayer-construction, Austria (i)

  prehistory (i), (ii)

  grave goods (i), (ii)

  hocker burials (i), (ii)

  independent cultures (i), (ii)

  Lepenski Vir (Mesolithic settlement) (i), (ii)

  Tripol'ye-Cucuteni culture (i), (ii), (iii)

  Vinča culture (Neolithic) (i)

  see also Copper Age; Neolithic period

  Prilavić, Ivan, Croat near Vukovar (i)

  Princip, Gavrilo (i), (ii)

  prison camps

  Belene (i), (ii), (iii)

  Mauthausen concentration camp (i)

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  Pushkin, Alexander (i)

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  Radnoti, Miklós, Hungarian poet (i)

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  Raykov, Svetlin, Roma leader (i)

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  reed banks (i), (ii)

  Refik, cable ferry mate (i)

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Crimean War (i)

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  Sari Saltuq (i)

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  Sarmatians (i), (ii)

  Sarmizegetusa, Dacian capital (i), (ii)

  Sárvári, István, Water Resources Research Centre (i)

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  Sax, Boria, historian (i)

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  scripts

  Alan (i)

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  ‘Danube’ (i), (ii)

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  as buffer state (i)

  and Hungary (i)

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  The Shade of the Balkans (folksongs) (i)

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  Sibiscanu, Elena, memories of Danube canal (i)

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  Simian island (i), (ii)

  Simpson, John, journalist (i)

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  Siret, River (i)