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Danube is an Old European river name derived from the Celtic ' danu ' or ' don ' [17] (both Celtic gods), which itself derived from the Proto-Indo-European *deh₂nu. Other European river names from the same root include the Dunaj, Dzvina/ Daugava, Don, Donets, Dnieper, Dniestr, Dysna and Tana/Deatnu. In Rigvedic Sanskrit, danu (दनु ...
A landlocked country is a country that does not have any territory connected to an ocean or whose coastlines lie solely on endorheic basins. Currently, there are 44 landlocked countries, two of them doubly landlocked (Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan), and three landlocked de facto states in the world. Kazakhstan is the world's largest landlocked ...
Hungary is a landlocked country. Its geography has traditionally been defined by its two main waterways, the Danube and Tisza rivers. The common tripartite division—Dunántúl ("beyond the Danube", Transdanubia), Tiszántúl ("beyond the Tisza"), and Duna–Tisza köze ("between the Danube and
The Danube has its source near Donaueschingen in southwestern Germany and flows through Austria before emptying into the Black Sea. [1] It is the only major European river that flows eastwards, and its importance as an inland waterway has been enhanced by the completion in 1992 of the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal in Bavaria, which connects the rivers Rhine and Main with the Danube and makes barge ...
Capital and largest city of the autonomous province of Vojvodina and second largest city in Serbia. 6. Galați. 217,851. (2021) 1445. Romania. The largest Danubian city in Romania and seat of Galați county. 7.
Geography of Moldova. Located in Eastern Europe, Moldova is bordered on the west and southwest by Romania and on the north, south, and east by Ukraine. Most of its territory lies in Bessarabia region, between the area's two main rivers, the Nistru and the Prut. The Nistru forms a small part of Moldova's border with Ukraine in the northeast and ...
Map of most important tributaries of the Danube. This is a list of tributaries of the Danube by order of entrance. The Danube is Europe 's second-longest river. It starts in the Black Forest in Germany as two smaller rivers—the Brigach and the Breg —which join at Donaueschingen, and it is from here that it is known as the Danube, flowing ...
Serbia is a small country situated at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the far southern edges of the Pannonian Plain and the central Balkans. It shares borders with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Romania. Serbia shares a contested border with Albania as it doesn't ...