The Danube (55 page)

Leopold V, Duke of Bavaria
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Lepenski Vir, Serbia, Mesolithic settlement
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,
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fish gods/goddesses
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inscribed stone
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leper colony, Tichileşti
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leprosy
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,
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Lewis, Bernard, historian
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limestone quarries, Basarabi
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Lom, Bulgaria

market
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river beach
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Roma population
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Lom, River
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Ludwig, Prince
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Lupu, Recep, Roma leader
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madder root
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Magony, István, shepherd
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Magyar, László, explorer
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Mahart state shipping company
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Mahmoudia, Romania
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Majdanetskoe, prehistoric settlement
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Majdanpek, Serbia, Neolithic copper mining
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Marcell, Béla, museum director
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Marcomanni tribe
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,
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Marcus Aurelius, Emperor
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,
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,
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bust
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Meditations
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,
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statue at Tulln
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Maria Himmelfahrt pilgrimage church, Bogenberg
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Maria Theresa, Empress
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markets, open-air
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Marmoreanu, Gheorghe, earthquake expert
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Maros (Mures), River
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Marsigli, Count
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master carver, story of
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Matthaeus Merian the Elder
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Mátthias, king of Hungary
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Matuska, Szilveszter, Hungarian train bomber
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Mauthausen, Austria, concentration camp
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Măcin, Romania
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Maximilian, Prince
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May, Karl, poet of American Wild West
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meanders
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restoration of
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,
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Mečiar, Vladimir, Slovak prime minister
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Medgidia, Romania (Karasu)
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Mehmed the Conqueror
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,
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Melk Abbey, Austria
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Mengen-Ennetach, Roman museum
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mercury

pollution
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used in gold extraction
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Merlini, Marco, archaeologist
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mesere
(Roma justice)
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Meštrović, Ivo, sculptor
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metallurgy, Anatolian
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Metternich, Count
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,
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Michael, King of Romania
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Midhat Pasha, governor of Danubian Principalities of Bulgaria
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Miedler, Hermann, fisherman
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Mikuska, Tibor, Croatian conservationist
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Milea 23 village, Romania
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Milošević, Slobodan
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,
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Miroč, Serbia
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Miscov, Ioana, leper
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Miskin Baba, Bektashi mystic
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legend of
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Mithras, cult of
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,
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,
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Mladić, Ratko
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capture of
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Moesia, Roman province
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Mohács, battle of (1526)
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,
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,
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,
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Mohács, battle of (1687)
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Mohács, Hungary
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,
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Busó festival
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Mohl, Arno, conservation expert
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Moldova
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,
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border with Romania
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tobacco companies
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Morava, River
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,
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,
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Mosna, Serbia
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mosques, Babadag
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,
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mosquitoes
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,
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Mother Baar, statue
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Mracuna monastery, Romania
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mulberry trees
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,
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Murad II, Sultan
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Murfatlar, Romania (Basarabi)
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Murighiol lake
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musical stone, prehistoric
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Mustafa, Grand Vezir (Kara Mustafa)
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Nagy, Imre, Hungarian Prime Minister
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Nagy, László, director of Baja port
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Nagymaros, Hungary
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see also
Gabcikovo-Nagymaros hydroelectric dam

NATO, bombardment of Serbia (1999)
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,
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,
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Natovi, Tseko, and family
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Neagu, Marian, museum curator
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Neckar, River
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Nedjelkov, Danail, Danube Commission
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Negotin, Serbia
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Negru Voda, Romania
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Nenov, Nikolai, museum director
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,
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Neolithic period
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figurines
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meat trade
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Vinča culture
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see also
Copper Age

Nicholas II, Tsar
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Nicholas, Saint
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Nicolae, Nicolas de,
Orientation et Navigation Orientale
(1568)
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Niculiţel, Romania
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vineyards
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,
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Niederalteich, Germany
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Nikolov, Milan, Roma politician
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Nikon, Patriarch
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Nikopol (Nikopolis), Bulgaria
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,
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Nikopolis, battle of (1396)
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,
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Niš, Serbia, NATO bombardment
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Njegić, Jovan, Vukovar
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Noricum, Roman province
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Norway, joint research project with Romania on sturgeon
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Novi Sad, Serbia
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Beška bridge
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Liberty bridge
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Petrovaradin fortress
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Varadin bridge
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Nussdorf, battle of (1683)
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obsidian flint
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Obstle, Gerhard, organic farmer
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‘Old Europe’
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,
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,
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Olescu, Vasile, leper
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Olt, River
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,
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Oniga, Doru, hotel owner
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,
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Oniga, Nicolae
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,
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Oprisan, Adrian, reed cutter
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,
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Orbán, Viktor, Hungarian prime minister
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Ordas, Hungary
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Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
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Orşova, Romania
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,
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Osman, Erwin, boatman
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Ottensheim, Austria, cable ferry
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Ottoman Empire
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,
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conquest of Hungary
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,
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,
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,
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conquest of Serbia
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loss of Hungary and Transylvania
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and siege of Vienna
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,
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,
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Ottoman Turks
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Ovčara farm, Serbia
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owls
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oyster shells (
spondylus gaederopus
), prehistoric trade in
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,
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Pacuiul de Soare island
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,
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paddle-steamer
Tudor Vladimirescu
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Paks, Hungary
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‘Pale Mother Germany’

poem
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statue
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Palmerston, Lord
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Pambuk Baba, Bektashi saint
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Pancevo oil refinery
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Papo, Eliezer,
Pele Yoetz
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paprika
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parlagfű
(weed)
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Passau, Germany
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labyrinth
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salt trade
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Veste Oberhaus fortress
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peasantry, decline of
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Pecheneg tribe
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Pécs, Hungary
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museum
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pelicans
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Pentecostalism, Roma community
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Perényi, Ferenc, bishop
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Perkov, Nikolai, politician
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Persina Nature Park, Belene
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Petőfi island
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Petőfi, Sándor, poet
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Petrescu, Daniel, guide
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,
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Petrics, Sóma Orlai, painter
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Petrovaradin, Serbia

battle for (1716)
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,
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,
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fortress
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museum
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Pied Piper of Hamelin story
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pike
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,
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,
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pike-perch
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,
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,
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Piteşti, Romania
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plague
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Plavi, Momir

forest worker
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Miroč
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Plevna (Pleven), Bulgaria
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Pločnik, Serbia
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Plopu village, Romania
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Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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plovers, little ringed
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Poarta Albǎ, Romania
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Pogačnik, Marko, Slovene geomancer
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Poiana Sibiului region
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Pokraina, Bulgaria
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pollution

chemical spillages
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,
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industrial
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Ponicova cave
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pop music

Ruse, Bulgaria
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Serbia
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Popescu, Ovidiu, curator of Brancusi's works
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poplar trees
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,
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Canadian poplars
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Popov, Vasile, Danube stories
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,
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Poreč island
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Porečka, River
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Portugal, Roma in
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pottery

Hungarian
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Neolithic Vinča
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prehistoric
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,
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Roman oil-lamps
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Slovene
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Tripol'ye-Cucuteni culture
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Prachatice (Prachatitz), Czech Republic
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prayer-construction, Austria
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prehistory
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,
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grave goods
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,
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hocker burials
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,
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independent cultures
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,
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Lepenski Vir (Mesolithic settlement)
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,
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Tripol'ye-Cucuteni culture
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,
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,
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Vinča culture (Neolithic)
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see also
Copper Age; Neolithic period

Prilavić, Ivan, Croat near Vukovar
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Princip, Gavrilo
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,
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prison camps

Belene
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,
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,
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Mauthausen concentration camp
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Romania
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Prokuplje, Serbia
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Provolovič, Dragan, archaeologist
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Prut, River
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,
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Pushkin, Alexander
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Quadi tribe
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Ráckeve, Hungary
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Radnoti, Miklós, Hungarian poet
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railways

Bulgaria
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,
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Romania
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rakia
(plum brandy)
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Rákóczi, Ferenc, monument to
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Ram, Serbia, fortress
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Ranshofen, Austria
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Raykov, Svetlin, Roma leader
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Razim, Lake
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artificial dykes and channels
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Reed, John, journalist
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reeds
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cutting
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reed banks
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,
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Refik, cable ferry mate
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Regensburg, Germany
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Regler, Father Balthasar
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Reimer, Márton, miller
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Rhine, River
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relationship to Danube
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Richard the Lionheart, King
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Roma people

arrival of
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at Babadag
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Bulgaria
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education
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,
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,
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Holocaust and
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in Hungary
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justice system
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,
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and Karbovski television show
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language
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,
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remittances
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Roman Empire
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,
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border garrisons
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and Bulgaria
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and Dacians
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,
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,
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Danube frontier
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fort at Nikopolis
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