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see also
carp; catfish; char; pike; sturgeon

fish farming, salmon
(i)

fish soup
(i)

fishing
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Baja (Hungary)
(i)

csontos kece
nets (Hungary)
(i)

GhindǎreŞti
(i)

herring
(i)
,
(ii)

illegal methods
(i)
,
(ii)

quotas
(i)

Slovakia
(i)

for sturgeon
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Fitcheto, Kolyo, architect
(i)

flint, obsidian
(i)

floodplains

Kopački Rit forest
(i)

Slovakia
(i)

floods and flood management
(i)
,
(ii)

controlled
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Florescu, Gabriel, former Romanian merchant navy
(i)

Florianus, Holy, early Christian martyr
(i)

fog, in the delta
(i)

folksongs

Bulgarian
(i)
,
(ii)

Transylvanian
(i)

forty, religious significance of
(i)

France, and Ottoman Empire
(i)

Frank, Georg, manager of Donau‐Auen national park
(i)

Franz Ferdinand, Archduke, assassination in Belgrade (1914)
(i)
,
(ii)

fröccs
(Hungarian drink)
(i)

Froissart, Jean, chronicler
(i)

Fronea, Dorel, Romanian customs
(i)

Fruška Gora hills
(i)

Fukushima, Japan, nuclear disaster (2010)
(i)
,
(ii)

furniture, painted
(i)

Gabčikovo-Nagymaros hydroelectric dams
(i)
,
(ii)

Čunovo storage lake
(i)
,
(ii)

Gabčikovo dam
(i)

Nagymaros dam
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Slovak ‘C’ variant scheme
(i)
,
(ii)

state contract (1977)
(i)
,
(ii)

Galaţi, Romania
(i)
,
(ii)

History Museum
(i)

steel mills
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Galgóczi, István, cookery book
(i)

game, prehistoric trade in
(i)

Gaydarska, Bisserka, archaeologist
(i)

Gazi Ali Pasha, governor of Buda
(i)

geese
(i)

Geissler, Siegfried, conservationist
(i)

Genç, Mehmed, historian
(i)

geomancy
(i)

George, Saint
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Gherghişan, Stelicǎ, mayor of Vǎcǎreni
(i)

Gerjen, Hungary
(i)

Germany
(i)
,
(ii)

Grünau wetland forest
(i)

hydroelectric power
(i)

Passau
(i)

Ulm
(i)

Gheorghiu-Dej, Gheorghe, Communist Party leader
(i)
,
(ii)

Ghindǎreşti, Romania, Russian village
(i)

Gimbutas, Marija

and Atlantis myth
(i)

on Lepenski Vir stones
(i)
,
(ii)

use of term ‘Old Europe’
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Gímes, Miklós, journalist
(i)

Giurgiu, Romania, abandoned dogs
(i)

Giurgiuleşti, Ukraine
(i)

Gizella, Princess of Bavaria
(i)

Glavašević, Siniša, radio reporter
(i)

Glykon (snake god)
(i)

godwits, black-tailed
(i)

gold
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Neolithic working of
(i)

washing
(i)

Golubac, Serbia
(i)
,
(ii)

granite quarries

Mauthausen
(i)

Măcin
(i)

grave goods

Celtic
(i)

prehistoric
(i)

graves

absence of Vinča
(i)

trampled by horses
(i)

Great Britain

railway building in Romania
(i)

shipping
(i)

Great War Island
(i)

Greek Orthodoxy
(i)

Greeks, ancient

colonies
(i)

colonists of Histria
(i)

wine
(i)

Greeks, modern

in Galaţi
(i)

in Sulina
(i)

Gregor, Father
(i)

Greifenstein, Austria, power-station
(i)

Grein, Austria
(i)

grey herons
(i)
,
(ii)

Grgeteg monastery, Serbia
(i)

Grimsing, Austria
(i)

Grünau, wetland forest restoration
(i)

water fly-over
(i)

Gül Baba, Bektashi monk
(i)
,
(ii)

Gumelniţa culture
(i)

gypsies

scrap metal collection
(i)
,
(ii)

see also
Calderash Gypsies; Roma people

Haarmann, Harald, archaeologist
(i)

Habsburg, house of
(i)

Hadrian, Emperor
(i)
,
(ii)

Hadžić, Goran, war criminal
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Hainburg dam, planned
(i)
,
(ii)

Hajdú, Éva, on Ada Kaleh
(i)

Hajji Bektash
(i)

Hallein, Germany
(i)

Hallstatt, Austria, salt mines
(i)
,
(ii)

Hamangia culture
(i)
,
(ii)

Hartley, Charles, canalisation of Sulina branch
(i)
,
(ii)

Hasluck, F.W., orientalist
(i)

Hasluck, R.W., historian
(i)

hats and headgear
(i)

Helemba Island
(i)

Helios and Ileana Cosinzeana, folk tale
(i)

Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
(i)

Henry the Proud, Duke
(i)

Heraclitus
(i)

Hercules
(i)
,
(ii)
n
20

Herodotus
(i)
,
(ii)

herring
(i)
,
(ii)

Histria
(i)

Hitler, Adolf
(i)

Hobiţa, Romania
(i)

Hölderlin, Friedrich, ‘Der Ister’
(i)
,
(ii)
n
20

Hoppál, Mihály, Hungarian writer
(i)

horses, Bronze Age
(i)

‘howling’
(i)

Hundstorfer, Rudolf, Austrian Labour Minister
(i)

Hungary
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

1956 revolution
(i)
,
(ii)

and Austria
(i)
,
(ii)

and Crown of St Stephen
(i)
,
(ii)

deforestation
(i)

exiles
(i)

and Nagymaros dam
(i)

and Ottoman Empire
(i)

river transport
(i)
,
(ii)

and Slovakia
(i)

state contract with Czechoslovakia
(i)
,
(ii)

traditional costumes
(i)

war of independence (1848)
(i)

Huns
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Hunyadi, János, Hungarian regent
(i)
,
(ii)

Hussars
(i)

hydroelectric dams

Austria
(i)
,
(ii)

fish bypasses
(i)

Germany
(i)

Melk
(i)
,
(ii)

see also
Gabčikovo-Nagymaros; Iron Gates

Ialtus, Ruse, Roman fortress
(i)

Ibn Battuta, traveller
(i)

Ignat, Sorin, vineyard manager
(i)
,
(ii)

Ikervár, Hungary, mulberry trees
(i)

Iliya, Pastor
(i)

Ilz, River
(i)

industrialisation

communist era
(i)

post-communist
(i)

Ingolstadt, Germany
(i)

Inn, River
(i)

Iron Curtain, fall of
(i)

Iron Gates dam
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

construction
(i)

and destruction of Ada Kaleh island
(i)

effect on sturgeon
(i)
,
(ii)

first
(i)

Iron Gates gorge
(i)

Trajan and
(i)

iron ore mines
(i)

Isaccea, Romania
(i)

war memorial
(i)

Islam
(i)
,
(ii)

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

feast of Bayram
(i)

radical
(i)
,
(ii)

in Romania
(i)

tombstones in Vidin
(i)

islands
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

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

Pacuiul de Soare
(i)
,
(ii)

Ivan, Nikita, fisherman
(i)

Izmail, Ukraine
(i)
,
(ii)

Jáki, Gabor, president of Hungarian Shipping Association
(i)

Jaróka, Livia, Hungarian Roma MEP
(i)

Jasna Góra monastery
(i)

Jason and the Argonauts
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Jews

in Bulgaria
(i)

Hungarian
(i)

monument at Kladovo
(i)

in Ottoman empire
(i)

Jiu, River
(i)

John Nepomuk, Saint
(i)

John Sobieski, King of Poland
(i)

Jókai, Mór,
Golden Man
(i)

Jorsa, Aleksa, farmer
(i)

Jovanović, Boris, archaeologist
(i)

József, Attila, poet
(i)

Juan, Professor Constantin
(i)

Justinian the Great, Byzantine Emperor
(i)

Jutta, wood carver
(i)

Kádár, János, Hungarian prime minister
(i)

Kadri, Ali, Ada Kaleh businessman
(i)

Kalemegdan fortress

Belgrade
(i)

military museum
(i)

Kálmán, Emmerich (Imre), composer
(i)

Kalocsa, Hungary, Paprika Museum
(i)

Kameradenbund (Association of Former Soldiers)
(i)

Kanikova, Sonia, writer
(i)

Kanizsai, Dorottya, heroine of Mohács
(i)

Karanovo culture
(i)

Karaorman, Romania
(i)
,
(ii)

forest
(i)

Karbovski television show, Bulgaria
(i)

Kelheim, Germany
(i)

Celtic
oppidum
(i)

Kepler, Johannes, astronomer
(i)

kifli
(Hungarian bread roll)
(i)

Kinross, Patrick
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Kirilov, Nikolai

Roma intellectual
(i)
,
(ii)

writer
(i)

Kladovo, Serbia
(i)

former caviar factory
(i)

Jewish monument
(i)

museum
(i)

Klein, Jacques, US General, UNTAES administration
(i)

Klopcsek, Tamás, caretaker
(i)

Klosterneuburg, Austria
(i)

Pied Piper story
(i)

Kneeling Oak, Karaorman forest
(i)

Kolev, Momcilo, circus owner
(i)

Kondrat, David, Russian in Romania
(i)

Konstantinov, Aleko

Bay Ganyo goes to Europe
(i)

To Chicago and Back
(i)

Kopački Rit wetland forest
(i)

Kopaonik, Mount
(i)

kopjafák
(carved wooden grave posts)
(i)

Köprülü the virtuous (Mustafa Zade), Ottoman Grand Vezir
(i)
,
(ii)

Kosovo

independence from Serbia (2008)
(i)

monasteries
(i)

Kosovo, Battle of the Field of Blackbirds (1389)
(i)

Kosovo Liberation Army
(i)

Kossuth, Lajos, reformer
(i)

Koyun Baba, Bektashi mystic
(i)

Krafft, Lutz, mayor of Ulm (1377)
(i)

Kraljević, Marko, Serbian hero
(i)
,
(ii)

Krushchev, Nikita
(i)

Krušedol monastery
(i)

Kuhn, Hans Peter, sound artist
(i)

kurgans
(burial mounds)
(i)

Lacka, Hungarian interpreter
(i)

Lajos II, king of Hungary
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Langobard people
(i)

languages

Dacian
(i)

Roma
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Romanian
(i)

Lauringen, Germany
(i)

Lazarević, Stefan, Serbian despot
(i)
,
(ii)

Lazarevo, Serbia, Mladić captured at
(i)

legends
(i)

Lehár, Franz, composer
(i)

Leopold I, Emperor
(i)

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