Lower Danube
[River]

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Common name
Lower Danube
Local name
Serbian and Bulgarian: Dunav; Romanian: Dunărea; Ukrainian: Dunai
Type
Type
Navigable Waterway.
Sources
The Danube, Donau in German, originates in the Black Forest, in the State of Baden-Württemberg of Germany (near the borders with Switzerland). See: Danube
Estuaries
>>>>> See Danube Delta
Catchment area
Total of the rivers’ drainage basin: 817,000 sq. km / 315,445 sq. mi. See: Danube
The Lower Danube passes through (or forms part of the borders) of five countries: E Serbia (10.2% of basin area), Bulgaria (5.9%), Romania which controls the greatest part of the basin (29.0%), the Ukraine (3.8%), and Moldova (1.6%).
Useful information
Due to the diversity of terrain in the regions the river crosses, this great waterway is divided into: the Upper and Middle Danube (Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia), which flows into the Straits (northeastern Serbia – southwestern Romania), and the Lower Danube (Serbia, Romania, and the borders between Romania and Bulgaria, Romania and Moldova, and Romania and the Ukraine), which flows into the Black Sea approximately 1,000 kilometres east of the Iron Gates.
Related main units
Black Sea
Danube
Danube Delta
Haimos Mts
Key words
Achaemenid Persians.
Alexander the Great.
Antiquity.
Balkans.
Barbarians.
Braila.
Bridge.
Bulgar Khanate.
Bulgaria.
Byzantine Balkans.
Byzantine fleet.
Castle / Fortress.
Celts.
Danube / Ister.
Danube Delta.
Danube, Maritime Danube.
Early Byzantine period.
Environmental disasters.
Euxine Pontus / Black Sea.
Galatsi, Romania.
Goths.
Haimos / Balkan / Stara Planina, mountain.
Hellenism.
Iron Gates.
Middle Byzantine period.
Middle Byzantine period.
Moesia Inferior, province / Moesia II.
Ottoman period.
Prehistoric settlement.
River.
River navigation.
Rivers, marshes.
Roman Empire, East.
Roman period, Imperial age.
Romania / Rumania.
Romania, Communist period.
Scythia Minor, province.
Scythians.
Serbia.
Slavic invasions.
Slavs.
Wallachia.