The River Danube

The Danube is Europe's second largest river. The amount of European countries that it goes through is amazing. It goes through 13 countries! It flows through:

• Germany,
• Austria,
• Slovakia,
• Hungary,
• Slovania,
• Serbia,
• Croatia,
• Bosnia,
• Herzegovina,
• Bulgaria,
• Romania,
• Yugoslavia, and
• Ukraine.

The Danube is 1,600 miles long and is connected by canal to the Rhine, Elbe, Main, Oderrivers. The Danube has got over 300 tributaries. The Danube Basin is over 300,000 square miles!!!

The history of the Danube is not very famous but I selected some significant points in its past:

• B.C: A crossing line for invaders of Italy, etc.
• Middle Ages: Povided transport and food for the Crusades.
• 1800's: A major industrial line.
• 1856: Treaty of Paris.
• 1890: Austrian government began improving their section known as the 'Iron Gate'.
• 1919: Treaty of Versailles affects the Danube.

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