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Encyclopedia > Little Danube

The Little Danube (Slovak: Malý Dunaj, Hungarian: Kis-Duna) is a branch of the river Danube in Slovakia. It splits from the main river near Bratislava, and flows more or less parallel to the Danube until it flows into the river Váh in Kolárovo. Its length is about 128 km. The part of the Váh between Kolárovo and its confluence with the Danube in Komárno is also called Váh Danube (Slovak: Vážsky Dunaj, Hungarian: Vág-Duna). The river island between the Danube, the Little Danube and the Váh Danube is called Žitný ostrov (Slovak for Rye Island, Hungarian: Csallóköz). The Murray River in Australia. ... The Danube (Donau in German; Dunaj in Slovak; Duna in Hungarian; Dunav in Croatian and Serbian; Дунав in Bulgarian; Dunăre in Romanian; Дунай (Dunay) in Ukrainian; Danuvius in Latin) is Europes second-longest river (after the Volga). ... Bratislava (until 1919: PreÅ¡porok in Slovak, Pressburg in German and English; Pozsony in Hungarian) is the capital of Slovakia and the countrys largest city, with a population of some 450,000. ... The Váh near Piešťany. ... Kolárovo is the town in the south of Slovakia near the town of Komárno. ... Komárno (Hungarian: Komárom [today a separate town, also Révkomárom], German: Komorn) is a town in Slovakia at the Danube and the Váh rivers. ... Žitný ostrov (Hungarian: Csallóköz, German: Große Schüttinsel) is a river island in southwestern Slovakia. ...


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The Danube (Donau in German; Dunaj in Slovak; Duna in Hungarian; Dunav in Croatian; Дунав/Dunav in Serbian; Дунав in Bulgarian; Dunăre in Romanian; Дунай (Dunay) in Ukrainian; Danuvius in Latin) is Europe's second-longest river (after the Volga).
The German tradition of landscape painting, the Danube school, was developed in the Danube valley in the 16th century.
The Danube connects with the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal at Kelheim, and with the Wiener Donaukanal in Vienna.
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