DANUBEDANCE

The International Forum "Danube - River of Cooperation" is a non-governmental organization working on improving international cooperation in the Danube region, in the areas of economy, environment and culture. The organization is active since 1989.

Danube is in the center of the European network of navigable inland waterways. After the Main-Danube connection was created, Danube became a part of the trans-European waterway linking seaports at the North Sea (Rotterdam, Amsterdam) and at the Black Sea (Constanca) - 3.505 km long.

An example to show the great importance of the Rhine-Mine-Danube waterway: the first attempt to connect Rhine and Danube was made as early as in 793. Charlemagne, the Frankish emperor, started a canal construction to link the two rivers. Works were soon suspended, but remnants of a canal, near Graben in Bavaria, witness them. The idea came to life only 12 centuries later.

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