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The Danube Backwaters

10,000 Birds

But, published in 1921 in Budapest, Hungary, it was written in Hungarian. And that was the time when all 400 km2 were still open to annual rhythms of flooding and represented a famous waterbird hunting ground. Nevertheless, Nagy was right. E.g. he mentions the meandering river Vishelja – today merely a straightened canal of Vizelj.

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