by Nick Thorpe
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)
