11. For the capture of the crown near Mattsee in Austria by the US 86th Infantry Division in 1945, see Richard C. Briggs, Black Hawks over the Danube: The History of the 86th Infantry Division in World War II, Western Recorder, Louisville, 1954, pp. 94–5.
12. Danube Bike Trail, Vol. 1, p. 116.
13. Ibid., p. 110.
14. See ⟨http://www.museen-in-bayern.de/inhalt/content.php?type=&objID=464&lang=en⟩.
15. See ⟨http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6078052.stm⟩.
16. See ⟨http://international.naturpark-altmuehltal.de/en/⟩.
14. The Tailor of Ulm
1. Luther Bible, 1534, Wittenberg. See ⟨http://lutherbibel.net/⟩.
2. For Ulm Minster, see Ulm Minster, revised English guide (Munich, 2010), ⟨www.dkv.kunstfuehrer.de⟩.
3. For the Museum der Brotkultur, Ulm, see ⟨http://www.museum-brotkultur.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=77&Itemid=59⟩.
4. For the Danube Swabians, see ⟨http://www.danube-swabians.org/⟩.
5. ‘Blankenstein Hussar’ (my translation).
Afterword. A Kind of Solution
1. Constantin Cavafy, ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’, from Collected Poems, trans. Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1992; see ⟨http://www.cavafy.com/⟩.
2. ‘Blutsbruder auf ewig: unser Karl May’, Stuttgarter Zeitung, 30 March 2012.
3. Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 9 April 2012.
4. Christa Wolf, The Quest for Christa T., Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1979.
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Filmography
David Barison, Daniel Ross, The Ister, 2004; see ⟨http://www.theister.com⟩
Cornel Gheorghiţǎ, Europolis, 2010; see ⟨http://www.europolis-film.com/?lang=en Ultima Primavera in Ada-Kaleh⟩
Andrea Weichinger, Nick Thorpe, The Vineleaf and the Rose, TintoFilms, Budapest, 2001
Andrea Weichinger, Nick Thorpe, The Fairy Island, Duna TV, Budapest, 1993
Index
Abdul Medjid, Sultan (i)
Ada Kaleh island (i), (ii), (iii)
cigarette factory (i)
destruction (i)
Sultan's carpet (i)
Adamclisi, Romania, monument to Trajan (i)
Ágoston, Gábor, historian (i), (ii)
agriculture
communist era (i), (ii)
Hungary (i)
origins of (i), (ii)
post-communist (i)
Sulina (i)
transhumance (i)
Ai Bunar, Bulgaria, copper mines (i)
Al-Rawi, Omar, Austrian Muslim leader (i)
Alans (i), (ii)
Albania (i)
Albuţ, George, Romanian embassy in Budapest (i)
Alexi, Mitya, fisherman (i)
Alexis I, Tsar (i)
Altmuhl, River (i)
amur (fish) (i)
Andreev, Emil, Bulgarian author (i)
Apatin, Serbia (i)
apricot trees, apricots (i), (ii)
aquaculture (i)
aquifer
at Gabčikovo (i)
near Bratislava (i)
Arany, János, poet (i), (ii)
Artion, Nicu, Russian in Romania (i)
Atal, Father (i)
Atlantis myth (i)
Atsaeva, Seda, Chechen migrant (i)
Attila the Hun (i)
aurochs (i)
Austria (i)
and Hungary (i), (ii)
hydro-electricity (i), (ii)
immigrants (i)
and Ottoman Empire (i)
Avala, Mount (i)
Avramov, Tudor, fisherman (i)
Babadag, Romania (i)
mosque (i), (ii)
Roma community (i)
snowdrops (i)
Babakaj rock, near Golubac (i)
Babenberg family, Melk (i)
Baboianu, Grigore, Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve (i), (ii)
Babović, Ljubinka, archaeologist (i)
Bacalbaşa, Professor Nicolae (i)
Bǎile Herculane (Baths of Hercules), Romania, thermal springs (i
)
Bailey, Douglass, archaeologist (i)
Baja, Hungary (i)
István Türr lookout tower (i)
museum (i), (ii)
river port (i)
Bajenaru, Aurel, hotel owner (i)
Balašević, Djordje, singer (i)
Balaton, Lake (i)
Balatonakali, Hungary, wine (i)
Balatonkenese, Hungary (i)
Ballomar, king of the Marcomanni (i)
Baptist Church, leper colony (i)
Basarabi, Romania (Murfatlar), cave churches (i), (ii)
Batajnica military airfield, Serbia, NATO bombardment (i), (ii)
baths, thermal, Buda (i)
Batina, monument to Red Army (i)
Batinić, Milorad (‘Lola’), interpreter (i), (ii), (iii)
Batthyány, Count Lajos, Hungarian prime minister (i)
Bavaria (i), (ii)
Bayezid the Thunderbolt, Turkish sultan (i)
beavers (i), (ii)
beer
Bulgaria (i)
Romania (i)
bees (i)
beetle, red (i)
Bektashi mystics (dervishes) (i), (ii), (iii)
Belene, Bulgaria
dykes (i), (ii)
nature protection area (i)
nuclear power station (i)
prison camp (i), (ii), (iii)
Belgrade
Francuska Street (i)
Kalemegdan fortress (i)
Second World War (i)
Skadarska Street (i), (ii)
strategic importance of (i)
Belgrade, siege of (1456) (i)
Belgrade, siege of (1717) (i)
Beştepe, Romania (i)
Betlen, János, Hungarian journalist (i)
bicycle path (i)
Big Rock, at Lepenski Vir (i)
bird-flu (i)
birds (i)
cormorants (i), (ii)
doves (i)
grey herons (i), (ii)
little ringed plovers (i)
owls (i)
sand martins (i)
wetland forest (i)
woodpeckers (i)
see also eagles; pelicans
Black Madonna of Częstochowa (i)
black poplar (i), (ii)
Black Sea (i)
rising level of (i), (ii), (iii)
Blackwood, Algernon (i), (ii)
Blagaj, Bosnia (i)
Blondel, minstrel (i)
Bogenberg, Germany, Maria Himmelfahrt pilgrimage church (i)