Amid fears of a large-scale international pollution disaster, officials of several countries through which the Danube flows downstream of the pollution entry point, including Croatia, Serbia and Romania, were testing the river every few hours last night, while in Hungary itself emergency crews were trying to dilute the effluent and its damaging high alkalinity.
The river flows from northern Romania through Hungary to the Danube, and it is fed by the Tisza tributary at this Serbian village, about 30 miles upstream from the Yugoslav capital, Belgrade.
From about 800 in the south and about two centuries later in the centre and north, the Germans moved east in an advance that divided into three prongs: down the Danube through Austria, north of the Central German Uplands through Silesia, and along the Baltic shore.
Most Bulgarian exports go through Serbia or along the Danube, now blocked by debris from bridges bombed by NATO.
One of them allows you to picture yourself on a boat on a river, steering down the Seine or the Danube, through a copper-colored European Oz.
Bloodshed in the Balkans; Arab and Kurdish nationalism across the Middle East; Turcophobia in Armenia; all are echoes of a dynasty that survived for 600 years and whose dominions extended from the Danube through the Levant to Algiers.
It flows through Slovenia, Croatia, along the northern border of Bosnia and Herzegovina, through Serbia, discharging into the Danube in Belgrade.
As a result, in 1529, Suleiman once again marched through the valley of the Danube and regained control of Buda and in the following autumn laid siege to Vienna.
Flottenabteilung Wulff was sent through the mouth of the Danube and across the Black Sea to Odessa, where it spent several months supporting the Austro-Hungarian troops enforcing the peace agreement with Russia.
