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27 August 2013
A day with the 3rd Joint Danube Survey
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MAGYARUL I got the opportunity to join the 3rd Joint Danube Survey (JDS3) for one day almost in the last minute from Béla Csányi, leader...
15 August 2013
Macedonia's way to the Danube
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MAGYARUL Macedonia (the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) received an observer status in the Danube Commission (DC) in December 20...
06 August 2013
Community gardening by the Danube
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MAGYARUL Urban guerilla gardening? New kind of street art? Community gardening which uses every free square inch? Or maybe a civil mo...
06 July 2013
Life on the floodplains of Kismaros
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MAGYARUL I did not know about this workshop in Kismaros, until Szilveszter Aradi sent me an e-mail that they had finished with this nat...
03 July 2013
1956 - War against the Danube
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MAGYARUL The Hungarian People’s Army takes the main role in this half propaganda documentary film made in 1956 about the last ice ...
25 June 2013
Rare pictures of the great Danube flood in year 2002
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MAGYARUL In connection with the recent Danubian flood articles often mention the record-breaking 2002. August flood. Indeed that was...
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22 June 2013
430 meters
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MAGYARUL 430 meters. An adult walks this distance in about 3-4 minutes. The world record for 400 meters flat race is 43 seconds. Such wi...
03 June 2013
Pamätné tabule ľadovej povodne z roku 1838 v meste Ostrihom
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MAGYARUL Históriu spúšte ľadovej povodne poznáme najmä z udalostí v Budapešti. Barón Miklóš Wesselényi a gróf Széchenyi István v svojic...
02 June 2013
Largest flood on the Danube?
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MAGYARUL Today, Sunday, 2nd of June 2013. the gauging station at Passau showed 1085 cm, a higher value than the 2002 flood, but still lo...
30 May 2013
Fish in the tower – The sunken fort of Drencova
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IN HUNGARIAN We already brought on the sunken Ada kaleh Island as a painful memento of the Iron Gate I. Hydroelectric Power Station, ins...
28 May 2013
Lussonium
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The ancient Roman castrum of Lussonium is situated on a long hill over the Danube in Dunakömlőd, Tolna county, Hungary. While watching ...
24 May 2013
Tunnel under the Danube between Nagymaros and Visegrád
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IN HUNGARIAN There are many legends in the Hungarian folklore about tunnels under the Danube. Where once a Roman watchtower, a medieval ...
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18 May 2013
The mysterious disappearance of the Great War Island in 1941
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IN HUNGARIAN It happened on the same day, when German battleship, Bismarck sunk Hood, the pride of the British fleet at coasts of Greenl...
28 April 2013
Like wax on a dead island's face - last drawings of Ada Kaleh
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In summers of 1964, 1965 and 1967 the Romanian island, Ada Kaleh was swarmed by students. They arrived from the Ion Micu University, Bucha...
27 April 2013
Sea of flowers in the Danube bend
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Spring has come late and gone early this year. At first signs of good weather increasing number of cyclists started to run over the Danube...
05 April 2013
Farewell, little island!
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IN HUNGARIAN The other day, someone shared this short animated film on the Danube Islands facebook page. I watched it immediately, and...
29 March 2013
The evanescent Pap Island of Szentendre
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Szentendre is a small town, situated just north from Budapest, on the banks of the Danube. Whenever you have the chance to visit this smal...
13 March 2013
Most beautiful bridge in the world
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There are times, when words mean nothing. In this post, there will be no data, date, paragraphs of law, engineering plans and documents...
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01 March 2013
Count Marsigli and the Danube
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Cover of the first edition, 1726 Count Luigi Fernando Marsigli embodies a long vanished kind of people, very dear to my heart, thos...
02 February 2013
Erected for the rolling Danuvius...
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...by Tiberius Haterius Callinicus . I read this weather-beaten inscription on a stone altar at the lapidary of the Aquincum Museum in ...
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