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The Main river flows through the German states of Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg (forming the border with Bavaria for some distance) and Hesse. Its basin competes with the Danube for water; as a result, many of its boundaries are identical with those of the European Watershed.

Main river begins near Kulmbach in the Franconia region of Germany, at the joining of its two head-streams, the Red Main (Roter Main) and the White Main (Weißer Main). The Red Main rises in the Franconian Jura mountain range, 50 km (31 mi) in length, and runs through Creussen and Bayreuth. The White Main rises in the mountains of the Fichtelgebirge; it is 41 km (25 mi) long. In its upper and middle section runs in valleys of the German Highlands. In its lower section it crosses the Lower Main Lowlands (Hanau-Seligenstadt Basin and northern Upper Rhine Plain) to Wiesbaden, where it discharges into the Rhine River. Major tributaries of the Main are the Regnitz, the Franconian Saale, the Tauber, and the Nidda.

The name derives from the Latin Moenus or Menus, and is not related to the name of the city Mainz (Latin: Moguntiacum).

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The Danube Runs Dry

A summer cruise along the Danube River - its been on my wish list for years. Who hasn’t been swept away with the images of those commercials by cruise lines that make a river cruise something relaxing, romantic and filled with European charm.

I arrived in Prague to begin a 10-day Uniworld cruise along the Danube River. At the hotel in Prague on the first night our group was delivered the surprising news that our port of Embarkation had changed from Nuremberg to Passau because the river was too low in Nuremberg to handle the boat. It would be a 3 1/2 hour bus ride to Passau. If we still wanted to go to Nuremberg that would be an additional three hours in the bus. As much as i had been looking forward to seeing Nuremburg's Rally Grounds, a full day in a bus wasn't the 5-star vacation I had in mind.

So I handed over my bags to the Uniworld representatives at the hotel and was reunited with them in my stateroom 4 hours later on the SS.Beatrice, minus a luggage lock and a pair of Gucci suede shoes. An auspices beginning for the cruise that would, in Uniworld’s words, “Make Memories”.

Passau is a town in lower Bavaria where the Danube is joined by two other rivers, the Inn from the South and the Liz from the north. The biggest attraction in Passau is the pipe organ in St. Stephen’s Cathedral, the largest organ in Europe. Unfortunately the church was closed. but the shopping mall was opened.

Then there was always a bus to cruise around in. Regensburg was a 120 kilometers drive from Passau. During the drive a guide named Sebastian shared his thoughts. Although he was told to avoid politics he didn’t. Ironically on our way to Regensburg he started to talk about how he believed that the current downfall of Germany began because of President Regan. This to a bus filled with Reganites.

Regensburg was an attractive mid-evil town with a 13th century cathedral. A popular sausage stand was around the corner from where a plaque on a building referred to Goethe having slept there. Near the church was a ice cream stand where tourists were inhaling gelato by the scoopfuls. It was a hot day in the old town. Certainly worth seeing but after several hours we were all ready to get on that boat and start cruising.

Although the river kept flowing and swans, boats, and others were going up and down the Danube, we stayed put in Passau. The cathedral was still closed. The shopping mall had been shopped. And the sleepy town was still yawning.

Nearby towns to Passau had a few restaurants, maypoles and a church or two. But a maypole without a folk festival or dance is like a light show without electricity. And once you’ve seen one maypole, you’ve seen enough.

Uniworld's management kept saying that we’d be leaving soon, but 3 days into the cruise we were still stuck at the docks. The Beatrice is a recently redesigned ship, deemed a super ship by Uniworld. There are marble floors, a white Murano chandelier with blue shades, and a grand staircase made of nickel and black iron. The Royal suite is 390 square feet with light wood and blue and white finishes. The large picture windows were impressive but so far mostly looked out onto other boats which pulled alongside. The views varied from other ship’s cabins and their occupants to groups of guests leaning over balconies to get a better look into the Beatrice. Where were those stunning Danube vistas which fill Uniworld's website?

In the afternoon of the third day of the bus-cruise, the Beatrice finally began to float down the Danube. The Danube is over 1700 miles long beginning in Germany’s black forest and flowing through 10 countries before ending in the Black Sea.

Today there are numerous cruise ships. According to the website CruiseCritic, the top river cruise ships are AmaWaterways, Viking River Cruises and Tauck. On board the Beatrice the Danube did become blue at night, thanks to some well placed blue lights. But the cruise came to an abrupt stop the next day.

It wasn’t team work in the end. We were forced to leave the boat in Bratislavia and travel the rest of the cruise again by bus. This time along a freeway to Budapest. The itinerary was not followed and the passengers were spread around hotels in Budapest to spend the remaining time on their own. In the fine print Uniworld states that they can make changes as they wish for the safety of their guests. Also stated is that Uniworld would alert guests, in advance of boarding, of any known changes. In trying to get some sort of refund for both the interrupted cruise, lost days, extra hotel charges and stolen items from the bags, Uniworld offered a future credit on another cruise. It was about 2 1/2 percent of the cost of the cruise.

The Uniworld cruise turned out to be an extremely expensive bus tour of the Danube.

Nürnberg - Things To See and Do In Nürnberg Germany

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Nurnberg or Nuremberg is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located north of Munich.
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The Main River: April 27, 2014

The Main flows through the German states of Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg (forming the border with Bavaria for some distance) and Hesse. Its basin competes with the Danube for water; as a result, many of its boundaries are identical with those of the European Watershed.

The Main river begins near Kulmbach in the Franconia region of Germany, at the joining of its two head-streams, the Red Main (Roter Main) and the White Main (Weißer Main). The Red Main rises in the Franconian Jura mountain range, 50 km (31 mi) in length, and runs through Creussen and Bayreuth. The White Main rises in the mountains of the Fichtelgebirge; it is 41 km (25 mi) long. In its upper and middle section runs in valleys of the German Highlands. In its lower section it crosses the Lower Main Lowlands (Hanau-Seligenstadt Basin and northern Upper Rhine Plain) to Wiesbaden, where it discharges into the Rhine River. Major tributaries of the Main are the Regnitz, the Franconian Saale, the Tauber, and the Nidda.

The name derives from the Latin Moenus or Menus, and is not related to the name of the city Mainz (Latin: Moguntiacum).

Note: Kulmbach in Franconia, is commonly used to refer to the eastern part of the historic Duchy of Franconia in Germany, mainly represented by the Bavarian administrative districts of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken, capital city Würzburg), Middle Franconia (Mittelfranken, capital city Ansbach), and Upper Franconia (Oberfranken, capital city Bayreuth). Due to the respective local East Franconian German dialects, the adjacent northeastern parts of the Heilbronn-Franken region in Baden-Württemberg, parts of Thuringia south of the Rennsteig ridge, and a small part of Hesse (Gersfeld) are also considered as Franconian regions.

The two largest cities of Franconia are Nuremberg and Würzburg. Though located on the southeastern periphery, the Nuremberg metropolitan area is often identified as the economic and cultural centre of Franconia.

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Danube River, Bratislava, Bratislava Region, Slovakia, Europe

The Danube is a river in Central Europe, the continent's second longest after the Volga. Classified as an international waterway, it originates in the town of Donaueschingen which is in the Black Forest of Germany at the confluence of the rivers Brigach and Breg. The Danube then flows southeast for 2,872 km (1,785 mi), passing through four Central European capitals before emptying into the Black Sea via the Danube Delta in Romania and Ukraine. Once a long-standing frontier of the Roman Empire, the river passes through or touches the borders of ten countries: Romania (29.0% of basin area), Hungary (11.6%), Serbia (10.2%), Austria (10.0%), Germany (7.0%), Bulgaria (5.9%), Slovakia (5.9%), Croatia (4.4%), Ukraine (3.8%), and Moldova (1.6%). Its drainage basin extends into nine more. The name Dānuvius is presumably a loan from a Scythian language, or possibly Gaulish. It is one of a number of river names derived from a Proto-Indo-European language word *dānu, apparently a term for river, but possibly also of a primeval cosmic river, and of a Vedic river goddess (see Danu), perhaps from a root *dā to flow/swift, rapid, violent, undisciplined. Other river names with the same etymology include Don, Donets, Dnieper and Dniestr. Dniepr (pre-Slavic Danapir by Gothic historian Jordanes) and Dniestr, from Danapris and Danastius, are presumed from Scythian Iranian *Dānu apara posterior river and *Dānu nazdya- anterior river, respectively. The Danube is navigable by ocean ships from the Black Sea to Brăila in Romania and by river ships to Kelheim, Bavaria, Germany; smaller craft can navigate further upstream to Ulm, Württemberg, Germany. About 60 of its tributaries are also navigable. Since the completion of the German Rhine--Main--Danube Canal in 1992, the river has been part of a trans-European waterway from Rotterdam on the North Sea to Sulina on the Black Sea (3500 km). In 1994 the Danube was declared one of ten Pan-European transport corridors, routes in Central and Eastern Europe that required major investment over the following ten to fifteen years. The amount of goods transported on the Danube increased to about 100 million tons in 1987. In 1999, transport on the river was made difficult by the NATO bombing of three bridges in Serbia during the Kosovo War. Clearance of the resulting debris was completed in 2002, and a temporary pontoon bridge that hampered navigation was removed in 2005. At the Iron Gate, the Danube flows through a gorge that forms part of the boundary between Serbia and Romania; it contains the Iron Gate I Hydroelectric Power Station dam, followed at about 60 km downstream (outside the gorge) by the Iron Gate II Hydroelectric Power Station. On 13 April 2006, a record peak discharge at Iron Gate Dam reached 15,400 m³/s. There are three artificial waterways built on the Danube: the Danube--Tisa--Danube Canal (DTD) in the Banat and Bačka regions (Vojvodina, northern province of Serbia); the 64 km Danube--Black Sea Canal, between Cernavodă and Constanţa (Romania) finished in 1984, shortens the distance to the Black Sea by 400 km; the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal (about 171 km), finished in 1992, linking the North Sea to the Black Sea. The Danube Commission is concerned with the maintenance and improvement of the river's navigation conditions. It was established in 1948 by seven countries bordering the river. Members include representatives from Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, Slovakia, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, and Serbia, It meets regularly twice a year. It also convenes groups of experts to consider items provided for in the commission's working plans. The commission dates to the Paris Conferences of 1856 and 1921, which established for the first time an international regime to safeguard free navigation on the Danube.

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2011-07-27 Serbien, Eisernes Tor, Donau zu Berg, ca. Stromkilometer 940
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Donauradweg 1: Deutschland / Danube Bike Trail: Germany

(English Subtitle) Unterwegs auf dem deutschen Teil des Donauradwegs. Die Fahrt geht von Donaueschingen mit der Donauquelle bis nach Passau an der deutsch-österreichischen Grenze. Die Radtour wurde in drei Etappen, im Herbst 2009, Frühling 2010 und im Herbst 2010 durchgeführt. Es wurden auch drei unterschiedliche Videokameras benützt: Canon HF10 (im Herbst 2009), Canon 5d Mark II (im Frühling) und Sony CX550 (im Herbst 2010). Der zweite Teil beschreibt den Radweg durch Österreich.
A trip on that part of the Danube Cycle Trail which runs through Germany. It runs from Donaueschingen with the river head of the Danube to Passau near the German-Austrian border. The bike tour was conducted in three stages, in autumn 2009, spring 2010 and autumn 2010. Also, there have been used three different camcorders: Canon HF10 (autumn 2009), Canon 5D Mark II (spring) and Sony CX550 (autumn 2010). The second part covers the Danube Bike Trail through Austria.

SS Maria Theresa River Cruise - Uniworld Luxury Cruise Ship

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One of Europe's most dearest and longest reigning monarchs, the immense Habsburg ruler Maria Theresa, was extraordinary to the point that we manufactured a whole Super Ship in her respect. Named Best New River Ship by Cruise Critic editors her lady season, the S.S. Maria Theresa highlights ultra-extravagant luxurious facilities and a variety of mindful individual touches, guaranteeing a genuinely liberal and remarkable voyage along the Rhine and Danube Rivers.

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Germany: DB Regio class 143 loco on a Nurnberg S-bahn 'S2' service leaving Frankenstadion stn

Germany: A DB Regio class 143 loco (number 143 970) departs from Frankenstadion station on the 1026 Altdorf to Roth 'S2' S-Bahn service. Clip recorded 14th February 2019.
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The DR Class 243 is a universal electric locomotive of the Deutsche Reichsbahn which is used for general rail service. Deutsche Bahn lists the locomotive as Class 143. The locomotives of class 143/243 still belong to the most successful class of German electric locomotives.

Beginning in 1976, the Deutsche Reichsbahn of the GDR recommenced their railway electrification efforts in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis, which had also affected the East Bloc countries. Prior to this, Deutsche Reichsbahn had mainly acquired Russian-built diesel locomotives, such as the class 120 and the DR Class 130 family, as the Soviet Union had been providing the GDR with inexpensive heavy oil and diesel fuel. VEB Lokomotivbau und Elektrotechnische Werke Hennigsdorf, the only manufacturer of electric locomotives left in the GDR, was subsequently ordered to develop a modern lightweight, eight-wheel electric locomotive for both passenger and medium freight services, which was to be based on the heavy DR Class 250 Co'Co' freight locomotives. The bodywork and other mechanical components were developed and built at LEW's Hennigsdorf works, while the traction motors and other electric equipment were manufactured by EMW Dresden and various other producers.

The prototype for this new locomotive type was designated 212 001. It was built in 1982 and first presented at the Leipzig Spring Fair that year. As built, the locomotive was capable of a maximum speed of 140 kilometres per hour (87 mph). It underwent extensive route trials before being disassembled for evaluation purposes, and while being reassembled was modified for a lower top speed of 120 km/h (75 mph), which had been specified for all following production locomotives. At this time, the locomotive was redesignated 243 001. Owing to its special livery of white with crimson stripes, 243 001 was given the nickname Weiße Lady (White Lady). Production of the new class began in 1985 after 243 001 had proven satisfactory during her trial period.
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Nuremberg is the second-largest city of the German federal state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 511,628 (2016) inhabitants make it the 14th largest city in Germany. On the Pegnitz River (from its confluence with the Rednitz in Fürth onwards: Regnitz, a tributary of the River Main) and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it lies in the Bavarian administrative region of Middle Franconia, and is the largest city and the unofficial capital of Franconia. Nuremberg forms a continuous conurbation with the neighbouring cities of Fürth, Erlangen and Schwabach with a total population of 787,976 (2016), while the larger Nuremberg Metropolitan Region has approximately 3.5 million inhabitants. The city lies about 170 kilometres (110 mi) north of Munich. It is the largest city in the East Franconian dialect area (colloquially: Franconian; German: Fränkisch).

Nuremberg was the site of major Nazi rallies, and it provided the site for the Nuremberg trials, which held to account many major Nazi officials.
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Deutsche Bahn describes itself as the second-largest transport company in the world, after Deutsche Post AG, and is the largest railway operator and infrastructure owner in Europe. It carries about two billion passengers each year.
At its creation, DBAG took over the abbreviation and logo DB from the West German state railway Deutsche Bundesbahn, although it has since modernised the logo. Erik Spiekermann designed the new corporate font DB type.
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AmaWaterways Excursion to Melk, Austria during a Christmas Time River Cruise from Prague to Budapest

AmaWaterways excursion to Melk, Austria on Danube River on a Christmas Time River Cruise from Prague, Czech Republic to Budapest, Hungary documented by travel filmmaker Clint Denn. Melk is a city of Austria, in the federal state of Lower Austria, next to the Wachau valley along the Danube. Melk has a population of 5,222 (as of 2001). It is best known as the site of a massive baroque Benedictine monastery named Melk Abbey.

The town is first mentioned as Medilica in 831 in a donation of Louis the German; the name is from a Slavic word for 'border.' The area around Melk was given to Margrave Leopold I in the year 976 to serve as a buffer between the Magyars (called Turks in that time's sources) to east and Bavaria to the west. In 996 mention was first made of an area known as Ostarichi, which is the origin of the word Oesterreich (German for Austria). The bluff which holds the current monastery held a Babenberger castle until the site was given to Benedictine monks from nearby Lambach by Margrave Leopold II in 1089. Melk received market rights in 1227 and became a municipality in 1898. In a very small area, Melk presents a great deal of architectural variety from many centuries.

In May 2012 AmaWaterways launched the AmaCerto in Vilshofen, Germany to much fanfare. Now the most luxurious river cruise ship in Europe, AmaCerto contains a number of revolutionary designs and is the first of the long-ships able to host 164 passengers slated to hit the waters in the next few years. In terms of expansion, AmaWaterways is now offering river cruises on the Chobe River in Africa on the Zambezi Queen in conjunction with land safaris on public and private wildlife reserves.

Not only is their fleet is rapidly expanding, but existing ships are being retrofitted with the latest amenities and inventions. AmaWaterways has led and will continue to lead the way in unparalleled on-board services that are constantly fine-tuned for the highest customer satisfaction. These factors, combined with a slate of new itineraries and specialty programs such as extremely popular Wine River Cruises, which were launched in 2010, make AmaWaterways the front runner in this burgeoning new segment of the travel business.

Such factors are why AmaWaterways received two Magellan Awards from Travel Weekly, an Award of Excellence form Luxury Travel Advisor, a Cruise Passenger Readers Choice Award in Australia for Best River Ship and was recognized for its Twitter account that put AmaWaterways on the list of The Top 25 Online Cruise Vacation Influencers by Influencers in Travel. Award-winning AmaWaterways provides luxurious, all-inclusive river cruise vacations on the world's great waterways.

Founded in 2002 by cruise industry pioneer Rudi Schreiner, cruise line executive Kristin Karst and Jimmy Murphy, founder of Brendan Vacations, AmaWaterways operates its innovative, custom-designed vessels on the Danube, Rhine, Main and Mosel rivers in Europe; the Volga-Baltic Waterway in Russia and the Mekong River in Vietnam and Cambodia. The AmaWaterways fleet in Europe features amenities such as spacious staterooms with French balconies or revolutionary Twin Balconies; plush down bedding, marble-appointed baths; complimentary high-speed Internet and Wi-Fi; first-run hit Hollywood movies; complimentary wine, beer and soft drinks with dinner, complimentary bottled water; gourmet dining in multiple venues (AmaBella); nightly entertainment; complimentary small group shore excursions tailored to passengers desired walking pace; guided bicycle tours and much more.

In 2011 AmaWaterways introduced the new 161-passenger AmaVerde in Europe, the newly-redesigned 212-passenger AmaKatarina on the Volga-Baltic Waterway in Russia and the new 124-passenger AmaLotus on the Mekong River in Vietnam and Cambodia, increasing its luxurious fleet of river cruise vessels to 15 after the 2012 addition of the AmaCerto and Zambezi Queen.

AmaWaterways Included Features:

7 Nights Deluxe Cruise Accommodations in an Outside Stateroom; Most staterooms with large French Balconies;Jewish Heritage Tours with specialized guides; Daily Sightseeing Program as outlined in the Itinerary; Infotainment System in all Staterooms with Free Internet, Hollywood Hit Movies, Music Library and English Language TV Stations; Terry Bathrobes and White-on-white plush Bedding in all Staterooms; Superb Dining with all Meals included on board; Free-flowing Red & White Wines from Europe's great Wine Regions, beer and soft drinks with every Dinner on board the Ship; Bottled Water in every stateroom replenished daily; Cocktail Reception, Welcome Dinner & Captain's Gala Dinner;

For more about river cruising with AmaWaterways in Europe, Russia, Vietnam, Cambodia and Africa go to AmaWaterwaysPR.com.

AmaWaterways Excursion to Melk, Austria on Danube River on AmaWaterways River Cruise

AmaWaterways' excursion to Melk, Austria on a river cruise en route from Amsterdam to Budapest on the Rhine, Main and Danube Rivers documented by travel filmmaker Clint Denn. Melk (older spelling: Mölk) is a city of Austria, in the federal state of Lower Austria, next to the Wachau valley along the Danube. Melk has a population of 5,222 (as of 2001). It is best known as the site of a massive baroque Benedictine monastery named Melk Abbey. The town is first mentioned as Medilica in 831 in a donation of Louis the German; the name is from a Slavic word for 'border.'[2] The area around Melk was given to Margrave Leopold I in the year 976 to serve as a buffer between the Magyars (called Turks in that time's sources) to east and Bavaria to the west. In 996 mention was first made of an area known as Ostarichi, which is the origin of the word Oesterreich (German for Austria). The bluff which holds the current monastery held a Babenberger castle until the site was given to Benedictine monks from nearby Lambach by Margrave Leopold II in 1089. Melk received market rights in 1227 and became a municipality in 1898. In a very small area, Melk presents a great deal of architectural variety from many centuries.

In May 2012 AmaWaterways launched the AmaCerto in Vilshofen, Germany to much fanfare. Now the most luxurious river cruise ship in Europe, AmaCerto contains a number of revolutionary designs and is the first of the long-ships able to host 164 passengers slated to hit the waters in the next few years. In terms of expansion, AmaWaterways is now offering river cruises on the Chobe River in Africa on the Zambezi Queen in conjunction with land safaris on public and private wildlife reserves.
Not only is their fleet is rapidly expanding, but existing ships are being retrofitted with the latest amenities and inventions. AmaWaterways has led and will continue to lead the way in unparalleled on-board services that are constantly fine-tuned for the highest customer satisfaction. These factors, combined with a slate of new itineraries and specialty programs such as extremely popular Wine River Cruises, which were launched in 2010, make AmaWaterways the front runner in this burgeoning new segment of the travel business.

Such factors are why AmaWaterways received two Magellan Awards from Travel Weekly, an Award of Excellence form Luxury Travel Advisor, a Cruise Passenger Readers Choice Award in Australia for Best River Ship and was recognized for its Twitter account that put AmaWaterways on the list of The Top 25 Online Cruise Vacation Influencers by Influencers in Travel. Award-winning AmaWaterways provides luxurious, all-inclusive river cruise vacations on the world's great waterways.

Founded in 2002 by cruise industry pioneer Rudi Schreiner, cruise line executive Kristin Karst and Jimmy Murphy, founder of Brendan Vacations, AmaWaterways operates its innovative, custom-designed vessels on the Danube, Rhine, Main and Mosel rivers in Europe; the Volga-Baltic Waterway in Russia and the Mekong River in Vietnam and Cambodia. The AmaWaterways fleet in Europe features amenities such as spacious staterooms with French balconies or revolutionary Twin Balconies; plush down bedding, marble-appointed baths; complimentary high-speed Internet and Wi-Fi; first-run hit Hollywood movies; complimentary wine, beer and soft drinks with dinner, complimentary bottled water; gourmet dining in multiple venues (AmaBella); nightly entertainment; complimentary small group shore excursions tailored to passengers desired walking pace; guided bicycle tours and much more.

In 2011 AmaWaterways introduced the new 161-passenger AmaVerde in Europe, the newly-redesigned 212-passenger AmaKatarina on the Volga-Baltic Waterway in Russia and the new 124-passenger AmaLotus on the Mekong River in Vietnam and Cambodia, increasing its luxurious fleet of river cruise vessels to 14 after the 2012 addition of the AmaCerto and Zambezi Queen.

AmaWaterways Included Features:

7 Nights Deluxe Cruise Accommodations in an Outside Stateroom; Most staterooms with large French Balconies;Jewish Heritage Tours with specialized guides; Daily Sightseeing Program as outlined in the Itinerary; Infotainment System in all Staterooms with Free Internet, Hollywood Hit Movies, Music Library and English Language TV Stations; Terry Bathrobes and White-on-white plush Bedding in all Staterooms; Superb Dining with all Meals included on board; Free-flowing Red & White Wines from Europe's great Wine Regions, beer and soft drinks with every Dinner on board the Ship; Bottled Water in every stateroom replenished daily; Cocktail Reception, Welcome Dinner & Captain's Gala Dinner;

For more about river cruising with AmaWaterways in Europe, Russia, Vietnam, Cambodia and Africa go to AmaWaterwaysPR.com.

Rhine | Wikipedia audio article

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00:01:43 1 Name
00:03:32 2 Geography
00:04:33 2.1 Headwaters and sources
00:04:43 2.1.1 Sources
00:05:36 2.1.2 Anterior Rhine and Posterior Rhine
00:09:59 2.2 Alpine Rhine
00:12:45 2.3 Lake Constance
00:13:38 2.3.1 Obersee
00:15:10 2.3.2 Seerhein
00:16:01 2.3.3 Untersee
00:17:04 2.4 High Rhine
00:19:37 2.5 Upper Rhine
00:24:40 2.6 Middle Rhine
00:27:47 2.7 Lower Rhine
00:30:33 2.8 Delta
00:37:57 3 Geologic history
00:38:07 3.1 Alpine orogeny
00:40:39 3.2 Stream capture
00:44:49 3.3 End of the last ice age
00:47:06 3.4 Holocene delta
00:50:02 4 Cultural history
00:50:12 4.1 Antiquity
00:55:38 4.2 Medieval and modern history
01:01:05 5 Lists of features
01:01:15 5.1 Cities on the Rhine
01:01:24 5.2 Countries and borders
01:04:16 5.3 Bridges
01:04:25 5.4 Former distributaries
01:05:18 5.5 Canals
01:06:00 6 See also
01:06:32 7 Notes and references

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The Rhine (Latin: Rhenus, Romansh: Rein, German: Rhein, French: le Rhin, Italian: Reno, Dutch: Rijn) is one of the major European rivers, which has its sources in Switzerland and flows in an mostly northerly direction through Germany and The Netherlands, emptying into the North Sea. The river begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps, forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein, Swiss-Austrian, Swiss-German and then the Franco-German border, then flows through the German Rhineland and the Netherlands and eventually empties into the North Sea.
The largest city on the Rhine is Cologne, Germany, with a population of more than 1,050,000 people. It is the second-longest river in Central and Western Europe (after the Danube), at about 1,230 km (760 mi), with an average discharge of about 2,900 m3/s (100,000 cu ft/s).
The Rhine and the Danube formed most of the northern inland frontier of the Roman Empire and, since those days, the Rhine has been a vital and navigable waterway carrying trade and goods deep inland.
Its importance as a waterway in the Holy Roman Empire is supported by the many castles and fortifications built along it. In the modern era, it has become a symbol of German nationalism.
Among the biggest and most important cities on the Rhine are Cologne, Düsseldorf (Germany), Rotterdam (Netherlands), Strasbourg (France) and Basel (Switzerland).

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The Rhine (Latin: Rhenus, Romansh: Rein, German: Rhein, French: le Rhin, Italian: Reno, Dutch: Rijn) is a European river that begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps, forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein, Swiss-Austrian, Swiss-German and then the Franco-German border, then flows through the German Rhineland and the Netherlands and eventually empties into the North Sea.
The largest city on the Rhine is Cologne, Germany, with a population of more than 1,050,000 people. It is the second-longest river in Central and Western Europe (after the Danube), at about 1,230 km (760 mi), with an average discharge of about 2,900 m3/s (100,000 cu ft/s).
The Rhine and the Danube formed most of the northern inland frontier of the Roman Empire and, since those days, the Rhine has been a vital and navigable waterway carrying trade and goods deep inland.
Its importance as a waterway in the Holy Roman Empire is supported by the many castles and fortifications built along it. In the modern era, it has become a symbol of German nationalism.

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The Danube ( DAN-yoob), known by various names in other languages, is Europe's second longest river, after the Volga. It is located in Central and Eastern Europe.
The Danube was once a long-standing frontier of the Roman Empire, and today flows through 10 countries, more than any other river in the world. Originating in Germany, the Danube flows southeast for 2,850 km (1,770 mi), passing through or touching the border of Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova and Ukraine before draining into the Black Sea. Its drainage basin extends into nine more countries. The Danube river basin is home to fish species such as pike, zander, huchen, wels catfish, burbot and tench. It is also home to a large diversity of carp and sturgeon, as well as salmon and trout. A few species of euryhaline fish, such as European seabass, mullet, and eel, inhabit the Danube delta and the lower portion of the river.

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00:01:17 1 Etymology
00:01:39 2 History
00:01:52 2.1 Pre-Roman Alsace
00:02:25 2.2 Roman Alsace
00:02:54 2.3 Alemannic and Frankish Alsace
00:04:20 2.4 Alsace within the Holy Roman Empire
00:08:36 2.5 German iLand/i within the Kingdom of France
00:10:43 2.6 From French Revolution to the Franco-Prussian War
00:14:17 2.6.1 Jews
00:15:56 2.7 Struggle between France and united Germany
00:19:35 2.8 After World War II
00:20:33 2.9 Timeline
00:20:41 3 Geography
00:20:49 3.1 Climate
00:21:18 3.2 Topography
00:22:04 3.3 Geology
00:22:35 3.3.1 Flora
00:22:49 4 Governance
00:23:02 4.1 Former administrative divisions
00:24:13 4.2 Politics
00:25:09 5 Society
00:25:17 5.1 Demographics
00:25:50 5.1.1 Immigration
00:25:58 5.2 Religion
00:28:23 6 Culture
00:28:54 6.1 Symbolism
00:29:02 6.1.1 Strasbourg
00:29:26 6.1.2 Flags
00:30:44 6.2 Language
00:37:39 6.3 Architecture
00:38:58 6.4 Cuisine
00:39:27 6.4.1 Food
00:40:40 6.4.2 Wines
00:41:12 6.4.3 Beers
00:41:44 6.5 In tales
00:42:19 6.6 The term Alsatia
00:43:26 7 Economy
00:44:45 7.1 Tourism
00:47:22 7.2 Transportation
00:47:30 7.2.1 Roads
00:49:22 7.2.2 Trains
00:50:31 7.2.3 Waterways
00:51:00 7.2.4 Air traffic
00:51:32 7.2.5 Cycling network
00:52:15 8 Famous Alsatians
00:52:32 8.1 Arts
00:53:14 8.2 Business
00:53:29 8.3 Literature
00:53:42 8.4 Military
00:53:56 8.5 Nobility
00:54:07 8.6 Religion
00:54:36 8.7 Sciences
00:55:04 8.8 Sports
00:55:24 9 Major communities
00:55:37 10 Sister provinces
00:56:07 11 See also

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Alsace (, also US: , French: [alzas] (listen); Alsatian: ’s Elsàss [ˈɛlsɑs]; German: Elsass [ˈɛlzas] (listen); Latin: Alsatia) is a cultural and historical region in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland.
From 1982 to 2016, Alsace was the smallest administrative région in metropolitan France, consisting of the Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin departments. Territorial reform passed by the French legislature in 2014 resulted in the merger of the Alsace administrative region with Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine to form Grand Est.
Due to protests it was decided in 2019 that Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin would form the future European Collectivity of Alsace in 2021.
Alsatian is an Alemannic dialect closely related to Swabian and Swiss German, although since World War II most Alsatians primarily speak French. Internal and international migration since 1945 has also changed the ethnolinguistic composition of Alsace. For more than 300 years, from the Thirty Years' War to World War II, the political status of Alsace was heavily contested between France and various German states in wars and diplomatic conferences. The economic and cultural capital of Alsace, as well as its largest city, is Strasbourg. The city is the seat of several international organizations and bodies.

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The Danube ( DAN-yoob), known by various names in other languages, is Europe's second longest river, after the Volga. It is located in Central and Eastern Europe.
The Danube was once a long-standing frontier of the Roman Empire, and today flows through 10 countries, more than any other river in the world. Originating in Germany, the Danube flows southeast for 2,850 km (1,770 mi), passing through or touching the border of Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova and Ukraine before draining into the Black Sea. Its drainage basin extends into nine more countries. The Danube river basin is home to fish species such as pike, zander, huchen, wels catfish, burbot and tench. It is also home to a large diversity of carp and sturgeon, as well as salmon and trout. A few species of euryhaline fish, such as European seabass, mullet, and eel, inhabit the Danube delta and the lower portion of the river.

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00:06:46 1 Prehistory
00:08:00 2 Germanic tribes, 750 BC – 768 AD
00:08:13 2.1 Migration and conquest
00:11:16 2.2 Stem Duchies and Marches
00:12:56 2.3 Frankish Empire
00:16:44 3 Middle Ages
00:16:52 3.1 Foundation of the Holy Roman Empire
00:18:17 3.2 Otto the Great
00:20:54 3.3 Hanseatic League
00:21:36 3.4 Eastward expansion
00:22:10 3.5 Church and state
00:26:25 3.6 Change and reform
00:28:11 3.7 Towns and cities
00:30:00 3.8 Women
00:31:15 3.9 Science and culture
00:32:56 4 Early modern Germany
00:33:11 4.1 Reformation
00:35:56 4.2 Thirty Years War, 1618–1648
00:37:55 4.3 Culture and literacy
00:39:54 4.4 Science
00:40:53 5 1648–1815
00:41:58 5.1 Wars
00:44:14 5.2 Smaller states
00:46:45 5.3 Nobility
00:47:38 5.4 Peasants and rural life
00:50:59 5.5 Bourgeois values spread to rural Germany
00:52:39 5.6 Enlightenment
00:55:39 5.6.1 Women
00:56:50 5.7 French Revolution, 1789–1815
01:00:44 6 1815–1867
01:00:55 6.1 Overview
01:01:53 6.2 German Confederation
01:02:50 6.3 Society and economy
01:02:59 6.3.1 Population
01:04:19 6.3.2 Industrialization
01:05:54 6.3.3 Urbanization
01:07:00 6.3.4 Railways
01:08:46 6.3.5 Newspapers and magazines
01:09:51 6.3.6 Science and culture
01:12:27 6.3.7 Religion
01:15:35 6.4 Politics of restoration and revolution
01:15:45 6.4.1 After Napoleon
01:17:43 6.4.2 1848
01:18:32 6.4.3 1850s
01:19:12 6.4.4 Bismarck takes charge, 1862–1866
01:21:13 6.4.5 North German Federation, 1866–1871
01:21:54 7 German Empire, 1871–1918
01:22:06 7.1 Overview
01:23:53 7.2 Age of Bismarck
01:24:01 7.2.1 The new empire
01:27:33 7.2.2 Classes
01:27:41 7.2.2.1 Aristocracy
01:29:50 7.2.2.2 Middle class
01:30:35 7.2.2.3 Working class
01:31:52 7.2.3 Kulturkampf
01:34:14 7.2.4 Foreign policy
01:37:06 7.3 Wilhelminian Era
01:37:14 7.3.1 Wilhelm II.
01:38:08 7.3.2 Alliances and diplomacy
01:41:05 7.3.3 Economy
01:43:20 7.3.4 Women
01:44:33 7.3.5 Colonies
01:45:24 7.4 World War I
01:45:33 7.4.1 Causes
01:47:13 7.4.2 Western Front
01:48:17 7.4.3 Eastern Front
01:49:13 7.4.4 1918
01:50:01 7.5 Homefront
01:51:17 7.6 Revolution 1918
01:54:40 8 Weimar Republic, 1919–1933
01:54:52 8.1 Overview
01:56:08 8.2 The early years
01:59:27 8.3 Reparations
02:00:47 8.4 Economic collapse and political problems, 1929–1933
02:02:58 8.5 Science and culture
02:04:48 9 Nazi Germany, 1933–1945
02:06:25 9.1 Establishment of the Nazi regime
02:10:20 9.2 Antisemitism and the Holocaust
02:12:30 9.3 Military
02:13:23 9.4 Women
02:15:27 9.5 Foreign policy
02:18:01 9.6 World War II
02:20:34 10 Germany during the Cold War, 1945–1990
02:21:45 10.1 Post-war chaos
02:26:02 10.2 East Germany
02:30:08 10.3 West Germany (Bonn Republic)
02:31:10 10.3.1 Economic miracle
02:32:28 10.3.2 1948 currency reform
02:34:38 10.3.3 Adenauer
02:35:34 10.3.4 Erhard
02:37:26 10.3.5 Grand coalition
02:38:06 10.3.6 Guest workers
02:39:09 10.3.7 Brandt and Ostpolitik
02:40:33 10.3.8 Economic crisis of 1970s
02:43:13 10.4 Kohl
02:43:59 10.5 Reunification
02:45:13 11 Federal Republic of Germany, 1990–present
02:45:24 11.1 Schröder
02:46:21 11.2 Merkel
02:49:01 12 Historiography
02:49:10 12.1 Sonderweg debate
02:50:38 13 See also
02:50:47 14 Notes
02:50:55 14.1 Footnotes

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The concept of Germany as a distinct region in central Europe can be traced to Roman commander Julius Caesar, who referred to the unconquered area east of the Rhine as Germania, thus distinguishing it from Gaul (France), which he had conquered. The victory of the Germanic tribes in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (AD 9) prevented annexation by the Roman Empire, although the Roman provinces of Germania Superior and Germania Inferior were established along the Rhine. Following the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, the Franks conqu ...

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