The Danube (52 page)

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, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1983

Gerry Johnstone,
Restorative Justice – Ideas, Values, Debates
, Willan Publishing, Uffculme, 2002

Tim Judah,
The Serbs – History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia
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, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1979

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, Brill, Leiden, Boston and Cologne, 2002

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Mohács Emlékezete – A Mohácsi csatára vonatkozo legfontosabb magyar, nyugati es török forrasok
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Kingdom of Salt – 7000 years of Hallstatt
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The Ottoman Empire
, Jonathan Cape, London, 1977; The Folio Society, London, 2003

Bertram Kirchner, ed.,
Die Donau – in Sagen, Mythen und Marchen
, Anaconda Verlag, Cologne, 2007

Philip L. Kohl,
The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia
, Cambridge University Press Cambridge, 2009

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et al.
, eds,
History of Transylvania
, Akademiai Publishing House, Budapest, 1994

Marko Kraljević,
The Ballads of Marko Kraljević
, trans. D. H. Low, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1922

Bernard Lewis,
The Muslim Discovery of Europe
, W. W. Norton, London and New York, 1982

Allan Little and Laura Silber,
The Death of Yugoslavia
, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1996

Claudio Magris,
Danube
, trans. Patrick Creagh, Collins Harvill, London, 1989

Magyar Hajózási Statisztikai Kézikönyv – 1945–1968
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Sándor Márai,
Memoir of Hungary 1944–48
, trans. Albert Tezla, Corvina, in association with CEU Press, Budapest, 2005

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Danubius Pannonico-Mysicus – Observationibus geographicis, astronomicis, hydrographicis, historicis, physicis perlustratus
, Amsterdam, 1726. Reprinted as
The Discovery of the Danube
, Museum of Water Management, Budapest, 2004

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, official guide, Stift Melk, 2008

Thomas Merton,
Memoirs of a Guilty Bystander
, Doubleday, New York, 1965

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Simon Millar,
Vienna 1683 – Christian Europe repels the Ottomans
, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 2008

Museum Guide, Baranya County, Collections of Janus Pannonius and Dorottya Kanizsai Museums, Pecs, 2009

Nikolai Nenov, ed.,
Sexaginta Prista-Intrus
, Ruse History Museum, Ruse, 2007

H. T. Norris,
Islam in the Balkans – Religion and Society between Europe and the Arab World
, Hurst, London, 1993

Dimitri Obolensky,
The Byzantine Commonwealth: Eastern Europe 500–1453
, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1971

George Ostrogorsky,
History of the Byzantine State
, trans. Joan Hussey, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1956

Mirko Peković,
Archaeological Collection of the Military Museum
, Belgrade, 2006

Marko Pogačnik,
Nature Spirits and Elemental Beings – Working with the Intelligence in Nature
, Findhorn Press, Findhorn, 2009

Constantine Porphyrogenitus,
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, ed. Gy. Moravcsik, trans. R. J. H. Jenkins, new, rev. edn Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, Washington, D. C., 1967, pp. 49–51, 57–63 167–71

Prehistory of the Lower Danube
, Editura CARO, Bucharest-Calarasi, 1997

Miklós Radnóti,
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, trans. Kenneth McRobbie, Zita McRobbie and Jascha Kessler, Corvina with Ohio University Press, Budapest and Ohio, 1985

John Reed,
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, Scribners, New York, 1915; repr. Orion Books, London, 1995

Romanian Folk Tales
, trans. Ana Cartianu, Editura Minerva, Bucharest, 1979

András Rónai,
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, Teleki Research Institute, Budapest, 1945; Digital Facsimile Edition, Puski, Budapest, 1993

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, Jonathan Bousfield and Dan Richardson, 5th edn, London, 2005

Ruse Tell
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The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000–3500
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, New York University and Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2010

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, Counterpoint, Berkeley, 1990

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, Harvill Secker, London, 2011

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The Balkans since 1453
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Croatia – A Nation Forged in War
, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1997

Marcus Tanner,
The Raven King – Matthias and the Fate of his Lost Library
, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2009

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,
Tearing Down the Curtain
,
People's Revolution in Eastern Europe
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, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2009

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Turkish Flowers – Studies on Ottoman Art in Hungary
, ed. Ibolya Gerelyes, Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, 2005

Marian Tutie,
Ada-Kaleh, sau Orientul scufundat
, Noi Media Print, Bucharest, 2010

Krisztian Ungvary,
Battle for Budapest: 100 Days in World War II
, trans. Ladislaus Lob, I. B. Tauris, London, 2003

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, trans. Luminita Irina Niculescu and Diana Presada, Editura Sophia, Bucharest, 2003

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Dobrogea inceptul lumii
(Dobrogea – The Beginning of the World), bilingual Romanian and English edition, Editura Q-T-RAZ, Bucharest, 2008

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Filmography

David Barison, Daniel Ross,
The Ister
, 2004; see 〈
http://www.theister.com
〉

Cornel Gheorghiţǎ,
Europolis
, 2010; see 〈
http://www.europolis-film.com/?lang=en Ultima Primavera in Ada-Kaleh
〉

Andrea Weichinger, Nick Thorpe,
The Vineleaf and the Rose
, TintoFilms, Budapest, 2001

Andrea Weichinger, Nick Thorpe,
The Fairy Island
, Duna TV, Budapest, 1993

Index

Abdul Medjid, Sultan
(i)

Ada Kaleh island
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

cigarette factory
(i)

destruction
(i)

Sultan's carpet
(i)

Adamclisi, Romania, monument to Trajan
(i)

Ágoston, Gábor, historian
(i)
,
(ii)

agriculture

communist era
(i)
,
(ii)

Hungary
(i)

origins of
(i)
,
(ii)

post-communist
(i)

Sulina
(i)

transhumance
(i)

Ai Bunar, Bulgaria, copper mines
(i)

Al-Rawi, Omar, Austrian Muslim leader
(i)

Alans
(i)
,
(ii)

Albania
(i)

Albuţ, George, Romanian embassy in Budapest
(i)

Alexi, Mitya, fisherman
(i)

Alexis I, Tsar
(i)

Altmuhl, River
(i)

amur (fish)
(i)

Andreev, Emil, Bulgarian author
(i)

Apatin, Serbia
(i)

apricot trees, apricots
(i)
,
(ii)

aquaculture
(i)

aquifer

at Gabčikovo
(i)

near Bratislava
(i)

Arany, János, poet
(i)
,
(ii)

Artion, Nicu, Russian in Romania
(i)

Atal, Father
(i)

Atlantis myth
(i)

Atsaeva, Seda, Chechen migrant
(i)

Attila the Hun
(i)

aurochs
(i)

Austria
(i)

and Hungary
(i)
,
(ii)

hydro-electricity
(i)
,
(ii)

immigrants
(i)

and Ottoman Empire
(i)

Avala, Mount
(i)

Avramov, Tudor, fisherman
(i)

Babadag, Romania
(i)

mosque
(i)
,
(ii)

Roma community
(i)

snowdrops
(i)

Babakaj rock, near Golubac
(i)

Babenberg family, Melk
(i)

Baboianu, Grigore, Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve
(i)
,
(ii)

Babović, Ljubinka, archaeologist
(i)

Bacalbaşa, Professor Nicolae
(i)

Bǎile Herculane (Baths of Hercules), Romania, thermal springs
(i)

Bailey, Douglass, archaeologist
(i)

Baja, Hungary
(i)

István Türr lookout tower
(i)

museum
(i)
,
(ii)

river port
(i)

Bajenaru, Aurel, hotel owner
(i)

Balašević, Djordje, singer
(i)

Balaton, Lake
(i)

Balatonakali, Hungary, wine
(i)

Balatonkenese, Hungary
(i)

Ballomar, king of the Marcomanni
(i)

Baptist Church, leper colony
(i)

Basarabi, Romania (Murfatlar), cave churches
(i)
,
(ii)

Batajnica military airfield, Serbia, NATO bombardment
(i)
,
(ii)

baths, thermal, Buda
(i)

Batina, monument to Red Army
(i)

Batinić, Milorad (‘Lola’), interpreter
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Batthyány, Count Lajos, Hungarian prime minister
(i)

Bavaria
(i)
,
(ii)

Bayezid the Thunderbolt, Turkish sultan
(i)

beavers
(i)
,
(ii)

beer

Bulgaria
(i)

Romania
(i)

bees
(i)

beetle, red
(i)

Bektashi mystics (dervishes)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Belene, Bulgaria

dykes
(i)
,
(ii)

nature protection area
(i)

nuclear power station
(i)

prison camp
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Belgrade

Francuska Street
(i)

Kalemegdan fortress
(i)

Second World War
(i)

Skadarska Street
(i)
,
(ii)

strategic importance of
(i)

Belgrade, siege of (1456)
(i)

Belgrade, siege of (1717)
(i)

Beştepe, Romania
(i)

Betlen, János, Hungarian journalist
(i)

bicycle path
(i)

Big Rock, at Lepenski Vir
(i)

bird-flu
(i)

birds
(i)

cormorants
(i)
,
(ii)

doves
(i)

grey herons
(i)
,
(ii)

little ringed plovers
(i)

owls
(i)

sand martins
(i)

wetland forest
(i)

woodpeckers
(i)

see also
eagles; pelicans

Black Madonna of Częstochowa
(i)

black poplar
(i)
,
(ii)

Black Sea
(i)

rising level of
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Blackwood, Algernon
(i)
,
(ii)

Blagaj, Bosnia
(i)

Blondel, minstrel
(i)

Bogenberg, Germany, Maria Himmelfahrt pilgrimage church
(i)

Bölcs, Sándor, thatcher
(i)

Boldizsár, Eszter, paprika grower
(i)

boomerang, prehistoric
(i)

Bor, Serbia
(i)

borders
(i)

Croatian-Serbian
(i)

Bosnia
(i)