"Among the rivers that have a fame and are navigable up from the sea there is also the Ister" - wrote Herodot of Halicarnas in Histories (484-425 BC), the earliest description of the Lower Danube lands; Publius Ovidius Naso (cca AD 10-15) noticed, he too, that "... the Danube is the biggest, / By no means does it want ti be lower than the Nile".
Europe's second largest river and the world's 26th, with almost 2,900 km length, a basin of over 800,000 sq.km populated by some 80,000,000 inhabitants in eight countries - this is the business card of the generous waterway that has for millennia been the "thoroughfare" known, appreciated and travelled by the Phoenician long boats, Greek triremes, Roman galleys, Byzantine, genoese boats and caravels, Venetian galleons, Turkish bolozans, Cossask ships in the earlier days, tug boats, barges and motor boats nowdays.
| In 1991, the Romanian part of the Danube Delta became part of the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. Around 2,733 km² of the delta are strictly protected areas. |
For more captivating details and photos of the Danube Delta, you may also visit:
www.romania.ici.ro
www.romaniatourism.com
www.brasovtravelguide.ro
Early bird registration deadline: 30 June 2012
Abstract submission deadline: 10 September 2012
Authors notified: beginning November 2012
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