Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Danube |
DanubeNoun1. The 2nd longest European river; flows into the Black Sea. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Danube" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Northern half of the Danube Delta
Satellite photoThe Danube Delta (3446 sq km), located in Dobrogea, Romania is the largest and best preserved of European deltas.
Image from the Danube Delta
Nature
It hosts over 1,200 varieties of plants, 300 species of birds as well as 45 freshwater fish species in its numerous lakes and marshes. The Danube Delta has been entered onto the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites and a reservation of the biosphere. Around 273,300 hectares of it are strictly protected areas.
This is the place where millions of birds from different places of Earth (European, Asian, African, Mediteraneean) come to lay their eggs.
Around 2,500 years ago, as Herodotus says that the Danube was divided in seven branches.
Inhabitants
Around 15,000 people live in the Delta, most of them are living off fishing with their traditional wooden kayaks. It includes a community of Lippovans which are descendants of the Old Rite Followers who left Russia in 1772 to avoid religious persecutions.
External Links
- www.deltadunarii.ro
- Birds of the Danube Delta
- Danube Delta: Photo Gallery
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Danube Delta."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Danube (German Donau, Hungarian Duna, Serbo-Croatian Dunav, Slovak Dunaj, Romanian Dunărea) is the second-longest river in Europe (the Volga being the longest).
It is the only major European river to flow from west to east. It rises in Germany in the Black Forest as two smaller rivers called Brigach and Breg, which join in Donaueschingen and are called Donau henceforth, flowing south-east for a distance of about 2850 km (1770 miles), to the Black Sea in Romania where the Danube Delta is.
The Danube is an important international waterway. It flows through ten countries (Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, Slovakia, Romania, Ukraine, Serbia and Montenegro) and has tributary rivers in seven other countries. It flows through the following large cities:
After the construction of the German Rhine-Main-Danube Canal in 1992, the river is part of a trans-european waterway from Rotterdam on the North Sea to Sulina on the Black Sea (3500 km). The amount of goods transported on the Danube raised to about 100 million tons in 1987. In 1999, transport on the river was made difficult by the NATO bombing of 3 bridges in Serbia. The clearance of the debris was finished in 2002.
- Ulm - Germany
- Vienna - Austria
- Bratislava - Slovakia
- Budapest - Hungary
- Belgrade - Serbia
The Danube is mentioned in the title of a famous waltz by Austrian composer Johann Strauss, An der schönen, blauen Donau (On the Beautiful Blue Danube).
Geology
Although the headwaters of the Danube are relatively small today, geologically, the Danube is much older than the Rhine, with which its catchment area competes in today's southern Germany. This has a few interesting geological complications. Since the Rhine as the only river rising in the Alps mountains flows north towards the North Sea, an invisible line divides large parts of southern Germany, which is sometimes referred to as the European Watershed.
However, before the last Ice Age in the Pleistocene, the Rhine started at the southwestern tip of the Black Forest, while the waters from the Alps that today feed the Rhine were carried east by the so-called Urdonau (original Danube). Parts of this ancient river's bed, which was much larger than today's Danube, can still be seen in (now waterless) canyons in today's landshape of the Swabian Alb. After the Upper Rhine Valley had descended, most waters from the Alps changed their direction and began feeding the Rhine. Today's upper Danube is but a meak reflection of the ancient one.
Since the Swabian Alb is largely shaped of porous limestone, and since the Rhine's level is much lower compared to the Danube, today, subsurface rivers carry much water from the Danube to the Rhine. On many days in the summer, when the Danube carries little water, it completely oozes away noisily into these underground channels at two locations in the Swabian Alp, which are referred to as the Donauversickerung (Danube Sink). Most of this water resurfaces only 12 km south at the Aachtopf, Germany's most yielding wellspring with an average production of 8,000 liters per second, north of Lake Constance -- thus feeding the Rhine. The European Water Divide thus in fact only for those waters that pass beyond this point, and only during the days of the year where the Danube carries enough water in the first place.
Since this enormous amount of underground water erodes much of its surrounding limestone, it is estimated that the Danube upper course will one day disappear entirely in favor of the Rhine.
External links
- Danube Sink (English)
- Aachtopf spring (English)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Danube River."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Danube is a city located in Renville County, Minnesota. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 529.Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.2 km² (0.5 mi²). 1.2 km² (0.5 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 529 people, 214 households, and 156 families residing in the city. The population density is 425.5/km² (1,094.1/mi²). There are 223 housing units at an average density of 179.4/km² (461.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 97.35% White, 0.00% African American, 0.38% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 2.08% from other races, and 0.19% from two or more races. 6.24% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 214 households out of which 34.1% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 65.9% are married couples living together, 4.2% have a female householder with no husband present, and 27.1% are non-families. 24.8% of all households are made up of individuals and 15.4% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.47 and the average family size is 2.94. In the city the population is spread out with 25.0% under the age of 18, 7.9% from 18 to 24, 25.1% from 25 to 44, 22.3% from 45 to 64, and 19.7% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 39 years. For every 100 females there are 101.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 101.5 males. The median income for a household in the city is $40,000, and the median income for a family is $43,750. Males have a median income of $35,781 versus $22,000 for females. The per capita income for the city is $18,807. 5.6% of the population and 3.8% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 5.3% are under the age of 18 and 7.5% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Danube, Minnesota."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Danube is a town located in Herkimer County, New York. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,098.Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 76.8 km² (29.6 mi²). 76.1 km² (29.4 mi²) of it is land and 0.7 km² (0.3 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.91% water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 1,098 people, 398 households, and 280 families residing in the town. The population density is 14.4/km² (37.4/mi²). There are 442 housing units at an average density of 5.8/km² (15.0/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 96.90% White, 0.82% African American, 0.36% Native American, 0.91% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.09% from other races, and 0.91% from two or more races. 0.91% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 398 households out of which 35.9% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 52.8% are married couples living together, 9.3% have a female householder with no husband present, and 29.6% are non-families. 23.6% of all households are made up of individuals and 9.8% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.76 and the average family size is 3.22. In the town the population is spread out with 31.1% under the age of 18, 6.6% from 18 to 24, 28.8% from 25 to 44, 22.8% from 45 to 64, and 10.8% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 35 years. For every 100 females there are 111.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 112.0 males. The median income for a household in the town is $31,815, and the median income for a family is $32,500. Males have a median income of $28,661 versus $20,000 for females. The per capita income for the town is $13,572. 18.4% of the population and 15.5% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 27.8% are under the age of 18 and 6.2% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Danube, New York."
Synonym: DanubeSynonym: Danube River (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Danube |
| English words defined with "Danube": Austrian capital ♦ Budapest, Bull trout ♦ capital of Austria, capital of Hungary ♦ Danubian ♦ Huchen, Hungarian capital ♦ Jentling ♦ Lentia, Linz ♦ Vienna. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Danube": Danaw ♦ Hallinger shield ♦ Xanthos. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Danube" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (Danube). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I hope they hit the Danube before dawn (Stalag 17; writing credit: Donald Bevan; Edmund Trzcinski) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Red Danube (1949) Le Danube bleu (1939) The Blue Danube (1939) L' Enfant du Danube (1935) The Blue Danube (1932) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title | ||
Books |
| ||
Theater & Movies | |||
Music |
| ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Loading cars with giant power shovel at Danube iron mine near Bovey, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Concentration or washing plant for Danube Mine near Bovey, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Putting identification card of Danube Mine on car of ore which has been partially refined at the concentration plant near Bovey, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Shovel crew in the Danube Mine. Bovey, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Washing ore in concentration plant for Danube mine. Bovey, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Operating releases which control chutes in loading railroad cars with ore at concentration plant for Danube mine near Bovey, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Blasting crew in the Danube mine. Bovey, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Loading iron ore into seventy ton cars. Danube Mine near Bovey, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Member of blasting crew at Danube Mine near Bovey, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
 |  |
| "Danube bend" by Karoly Feher Commentary: "This silver ribbon is in Hungary, Visegrád in 2002 november, it was a very nice autumn evening." | "Budatrain" by Andre Engels Commentary: "These can be used to take you up from the Danube River to Buda Castle in Budapest." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Special Clauses relating to the Danube. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Such activities might include small infrastructure projects, Danube hot spot projects, climate change projects, and natural resource projects including sustainable forestry. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Moldova | The Bessarabian Orthodox Church considers itself to be the legal and canonical successor to the pre-World War II Romanian Orthodox Church in Bessarabia (a historical and geographical designation generally applied to the area bounded by the Danube, Nistru, and Prut Rivers, and the Black Sea). (references) |
Economic History | Bulgaria | Just one bridge, at Ruse, spans the Danube between Bulgaria and Romania. (references) |
Hungary | Unemployment levels are higher than the national average in Hungary east of the Danube. (references) | |
Trade | Ukraine | Located on the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov, and the rivers Danube, Yuzhniy Bug and Dnieper, they are currently under the authority of the Ministry of Transportation's Department of Sea and River Transport. (references) |
Moldova | Infrastructure projects: In 1996, EBRD signed a USD 19 million financing package for Terminal S.A., a Moldovan joint venture between Tirex-Petrol and a Greek joint-venture company Technovax SA, for construction of an oil terminal on the Danube river in southern Moldova. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Danube" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 93.02% of the time. "Danube" is used about 43 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 93.02% | 40 | 54,274 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.98% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 43 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Danube, MN (city, FIPS 14716) |
Expressions using "Danube": danube River ♦ danube salmon ♦ the danube. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Danube": Danube-sava. | |
Ending with "Danube": Sava-danube. | |
Containing "Danube": Sava-danube-morava-vardar, Sava-danube-una. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Danube"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | Donau. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | дунав. (various references) | |
Chinese | 多瑙河. (various references) | |
Czech | dunaj. (various references) | |
Danish | Donau-skalle (Danube roach), Donau-laks (Danube salmon, huchen), Donau-løje (Danube bleak), Donau-kommissionen (the Danube Commission), Donau-hork (Danube ruffe), Donau-grundling (Danube gudgeon), Donau-brasen (Danube bream), Den Internationale Kommission for Beskyttelse af Donau (International Commission for the protection of the river Danube), waxdick (Danube sturgeon, osetr), Konventionen om beskyttelse af Donau (Convention for the protection of the Danube, Convention on cooperation for the protection and sustainable use of the river Danube), Konvention om samarbejde om beskyttelse og bæredygtig udnyttelse af Danau (Convention for the protection of the Danube, Convention on cooperation for the protection and sustainable use of the river Danube). (various references) | |
Dutch | Donau. (various references) | |
Esperanto | Danubo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | Donau. (various references) | |
Finnish | Tonava (the Danube). (various references) | |
French | Danube. (various references) | |
German | donau. (various references) | |
Greek | δουνάβησ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | Duna. (various references) | |
Italian | Danubio. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anubeday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | danúbio. (various references) | |
Romanian | Dunårea. (various references) | |
Russian | дунай. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | dunav. (various references) | |
Spanish | danubio. (various references) | |
Swedish | donausandkrypare (Danube gudgeon), donaulöja (Danube bleak), donaugärs (Danube ruffe), donaubraxen (Danube bream), donau (the danube), rysk stör (Danube sturgeon, osetr), pigomört (Danube roach), huchen (Danube salmon, huchen). (various references) | |
Tagalog | Ilog Danubyo. (various references) | |
Turkish | tuna nehri, tuna. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | дунай. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Abramis sapa, Acerina schraetzer, Acipenser gueldenstaedti, Chalcalburnus chalcoides, Gobio uranoscopus, Gymnocephalus schraetzer, Hister, Hucho hucho, Leuciscus pigus, Rutilus pigus, Salmo hucho. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Danube" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dainabot, Dinorben, Dongbei, Dunbui, Tanabu. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-n-u" | |
-1 letter: baned, daube. | |
-2 letters: abed, bade, band, bane, baud, bead, bean, beau, bedu, bend, bund, daub, dean, dune, nabe, nude, unbe, unde. | |
-3 letters: and, ane, bad, ban, bed, ben, bud, bun, dab, deb, den, dub, due, dun, eau, end, nab, nae, neb, nub. | |
-4 letters: ab, ad, ae, an, ba, be, de, ed, en, na, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-n-u" | |
+1 letter: bandeau, subdean, unbaked, unbased, unbated. | |
+2 letters: abducens, abducent, abounded, bandeaus, bandeaux, baudekin, breadnut, debutant, dumbcane, subdeans, sunbaked, turbaned, unabated, unabused, unbacked, unbanned, unbarbed, unbarred, unbathed, unbeared, unbiased, unblamed, unbraced, unbraked, undoable. | |
+3 letters: abundance, banqueted, baudekins, bedaubing, belauding, breadnuts, butadiene, debutante, debutants, dumbcanes, eastbound, endurable, endurably, husbanded, husbander, inaudible, incubated, intubated, soundable, subdeacon, subpenaed, sunbathed, turbanned, unabashed, unabraded, unbandage, unbraided, unbranded, unlabeled, unridable, urbanised, urbanized. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Usage Frequency 12. Cities | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Derivations 18. Anagrams 19. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
