Assignment - Mara Tirana
“The river was no respecter of national territories. Its route had been fashioned through the millennia by mountain upheavals and ancient interior seas in its mighty sweep to the east. Nothing stopped it. Sometimes it was thrust aside by a mountain spur, or squeezed through narrow gaps of granitic rock, or eased on the broad plains of the Hungarian Alfold and the fabulous wheat fields of the Backa, in northern Yugoslavia.
Beyond the Carpathian gap at Bratislava, the Danube for a few miles wa...s entirely in Slovakia before entering Hungary. Thereafter, for one hundred miles, the channel flowed upon alluvial deposits of the Little Hungarian plain, separated from the Alfold by the Bakony ridge, the innermost arc of the Carpathians. But east of Esztergom, the river broke through into the wheat plains.
For those first miles, Durell remembered, the Danube was divided into three channels, forming two main islands, until at Vac the river turned south all the way across the plains, passing Budapest on its sweep into the Balkans.MoreLess
Beyond the Carpathian gap at Bratislava, the Danube for a few miles wa...s entirely in Slovakia before entering Hungary. Thereafter, for one hundred miles, the channel flowed upon alluvial deposits of the Little Hungarian plain, separated from the Alfold by the Bakony ridge, the innermost arc of the Carpathians. But east of Esztergom, the river broke through into the wheat plains.
For those first miles, Durell remembered, the Danube was divided into three channels, forming two main islands, until at Vac the river turned south all the way across the plains, passing Budapest on its sweep into the Balkans.MoreLess
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