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Danube

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1. Danube - Noun

2. Danube - Proper noun

Meaning

the 2nd longest European river (after the Volga); flows from southwestern Germany to the Black Sea

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Vienna, Budapest, and Belgrade are on the banks of the Danube Source: Internet

According to historians such as Herwig Wolfram : :The Marcomanni and the Quadi gave up their special names after crossing the Danube, in fact both the emigrants and the groups remaining in Pannonia became Suebi again. Source: Internet

After Attila left Italy and returned to his palace across the Danube, he planned to strike at Constantinople again and reclaim the tribute which Marcian had stopped. Source: Internet

An old anecdote recounts that when Strauss's wife Adele asked Brahms to autograph her fan, he wrote the first few notes of the "Blue Danube" waltz, and then wrote the words "Unfortunately not by Johannes Brahms!" underneath. Source: Internet

After a brief stationing on the Danube frontier, Aelius returned to Rome to make an address to the senate on the first day of 138. The night before the speech, however, he grew ill, and died of a haemorrhage later in the day. Source: Internet

A mobile, broadly similar lifestyle would have facilitated contacts amongst disparate ethnic groupings along the expansive Eurasian steppe from the Danube to Manchuria, leading to many cultural similarities. Source: Internet

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