Danube
['dænju:b]
Definition
(noun.) the 2nd longest European river (after the Volga); flows from southwestern Germany to the Black Sea; 'Vienna, Budapest, and Belgrade are on the banks of the Danube'.
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Examples
- There was no such settling down behind a final frontier on the part of the Chinese as we see in the case of the Romans at the Rhine and Danube. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In 321 A.D. the Goths were again over the Danube, plundering what is now Serbia and Bulgaria. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He carried expeditions into Illyria and as far as the Danube; he also spread his power along the coast as far as the Hellespont. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They also crossed the Danube in a great land raid in 247, and defeated and killed the Emperor Decius in what is now Serbia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He built Hadrian's wall across Britain, and a palisade between the Rhine and the Danube. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Darius had already made plans for an expedition into Europe, aiming not at Greece, but to the northward of Greece, across the Bosphorus and Danube. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Lombards were as yet north of the Danube. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was content to keep the Rhine and Danube as its boundaries, and to make no effort to Romanize Germany. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The seat of his government was in the plains east of the Danube. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Visigoths (or West Goths) followed the example of the Vandals, and made arrangements to cross the Danube into Roman territory. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It lifts a curtain upon the Balkan country behind Greece about which we have said nothing hitherto; it carries us to and over the Danube. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Now we shan't have to talk, he said, smiling into her candid eyes, as they floated away on the soft waves of the Blue Danube. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- They crossed the Danube, and prepared to give battle to the Scythian army and take the cities of the Scythians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The world from the Danube to the Chinese frontiers was still largely a nomadic world, with towns and cities growing up upon the chief trade routes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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