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24 January 2013
City of three rivers - Dreiflüssestadt Passau
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In hydrological point of view the German section of the Danube offers many interesting places. First of all: where does the Danube come ...
23 January 2013
Fragmentum
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It all started, when I found a piece of pottery on a Visegrád hillside with dense shrubs. At least it seemed like one. This piece of p...
19 January 2013
A Danubian saint - St. John of Nepomuk
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Earlier I haven't noticed these statues. I walked them by as anybody else these days. Moreover I did not even read the inscription bel...
17 January 2013
Roaming the Croatian Danube-bend
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The "Croatian Danube-bend expression in the title may not considered as an existing geographical name. I am not sure if anybody has u...
15 January 2013
Lighthouses of the Danube
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Heartly I admit that until last week I had no knowledge of the Danubian lighthouses. At least I had a suspicion that maybe I have seen o...
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05 January 2013
Fallen star of the Danube - The ephemeral Tündér Island
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In the Szentendre Danue, opposite the Luppa Island, there was a small island, which praises the work of Hungarian water construction and...
01 January 2013
Summary of the year 2012
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If I had to briefly summarize the year of 2012 from the point of view of the Danube Islands, I would only say: it was very good. However, ...
27 December 2012
Spiritual landscape of the Danube in 1941
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In year 1941, Hungary regained most of its old parts, like southern Slovakia, Subcarpathia, northern Transylvania and Vojvodina. The Hunga...
21 December 2012
Last spring on Ada Kaleh
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It is very hard to say anything new of the sunken island of Ada Kaleh. Many memoirs, pictures, and literature can be found of this lost pa...
14 December 2012
Wildlife on holiday - Summer on the Rezéti-Danube
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Gemenc is one of the largest floodplains along the Danube, that remained. The riverine forests and meadows have escaped the river regulati...
08 December 2012
The gothic Zichy chapel of Lórév
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Those who wander often on the danubian floodplains, will soon receive immunity against finding weird things in the riverine forests and m...
30 November 2012
November morningrise on the Danube
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Autumn has arrived to the banks of the Danube. Dense fog hides in its side arms, between the trees. Rays of sunlight can only lift the vap...
27 November 2012
The swollen Margaret Island
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If we go through the admirable photo collaction of Fortepan.hu with an eye got used to geomorphology, we can find a lot of interestin...
24 November 2012
Danubian archipelago on fire - archive pictures of the bombing of Hungary, 1944
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Busy death is seeking this era... Fortepan.hu , a famous collection of old photographs has just published several pictures, taken from ame...
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22 November 2012
Geography of Saint Florian
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Enns. A less than 254 km long tributary of the left side of the Danube. Starting from the Radstäter Tauern and initially heading to east, ...
11 November 2012
Traces of a mighty paleo-Danube in the Altmühl Valley
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The morphology of the river valleys depends on the amount of the water delivered. By morphology we do not only understand the width of th...
08 November 2012
Record discharge measured on the Drava!
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The record discharge on the Drava was surpassed today. At the city of Ptuj they measured 3100-3200 m³ per second, which surpassed by 500 m...
02 November 2012
The Danube is blooming!
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End of August I received many emails and calls from the blog's readers, that there has been a miracle all along the river. THE DANUBE ...
26 October 2012
Wild Hungary
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I may not be neutral about this nature film, made by Zoltán Török in 2011. In brief this is my favourite of it's kind. If you do not...
16 October 2012
First of all
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After three years I finally made the decision to put my Dunai Szigetek (Islands of the Danube) blog in the hands of a wider audience. W...
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