The Danube River has been a trade waterway for centuries, but with the rise of international borders and the jealousies of national states, commerce and shipping has often been hampered for reasons of
Military post on the Danube during the Crimean War, 1853, Illustrated London News
François Adolphe Bourqueney of France
Alexander Mihailovich Gortschakoff of Russia
The Commissions of the Danube River were authorized by the Treaty of Paris after the close of the Crimean War. One of these international commissions, the most successful, was the European Commission
Internationalization of the Danube River
…A series of articles on this subject in chronological order Commissions of the Danube River, for the international body governing the waterway from 1856 to 1940 Nazi rule over the Danube River, for events during World War II…
Commemorative plaque at a lighthouse in Sulina, Tulcea county, Romania, built by the European Commission along with river dykes and completed in November 1870
View of the river at Braila in 1870; a ship in drydock
Southeastern Europe after the Congress of Berlin
Percy Sanderson, British-built dredger of the Danube Commission in 1911