The Danube River

Physical Properties: The Danube River (Also known as the Donau, Dunaj, Duna, Dunav, Dunarea, and Dunay River) flows for approximately 1,770 miles (2,850 kilometers). The Danube runs through eight countries with six variations of its name (listed above). The countries that it runs through are: West Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, and the Soviet Union. The river rises in the Black Forest mountains of West Germany and flows to its mouth on the Black Sea. …

…river. Pollution also increases as the waters flow past industrial areas. The first hunters that used the Danube River were probably the Romans. Archeologists have found evidence of early communities by finding a whole empire under the hardened molten rock. This empire collapsed by the barbarians and by their own armies. They found out by writing that they find. Another empire that was strong and collapsed was the Hungarian/Austrian and collapsed by the Germans.