The Danube is the longest river in the European Union and Europe's second longest river after the Volga.
The river originates in the Black Forest in Germany as the much smaller Brigach and Breg rivers which join at the eponymously named German town Donaueschingen, after which it is known as the Danube and flows eastwards for a distance of some 2850 km (1771 miles), passing through four Central and Eastern European capitals, before emptying into the Black Sea via the Danube Delta in Romania and Ukraine.
The Nobel Prize for Peace in 2008 awarded Martti Ahtisaari "for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts".
The friendship between the Romanians and Serbians from the border of the Danube is an organic friendship. Maybe the Romanians from the Mehedinti county cannot explain themselves this, but they feel more friends with the Serbians from the Danube villages and cities than with other regions from Romania. It is about centuries of common life. You can see in Drobeta Turnu Severin more frequently a Serbian from Negotin than an habitant of Bucharest or Moldavia. Here, the borders was always just a formal, not a real wall between the two areas.
Nicolae Ceauşescu (January 26, 1918–December 25, 1989) was the leader of Romania from 1965 until December 1989, when a revolution and coup removed him from power. The self-called revolutionaries' representatives held a two-hour trial and sentenced him to death for crimes against the state, genocide, and "undermining the national economy." The hasty trial has been criticized as a kangaroo court. His subsequent execution marked the final act of the Revolutions of 1989.
Czechoslovakian Christmas cookies (vánoční cukroví)
The Nobel Prize for Peace in 2008 awarded Martti Ahtisaari "for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts".
