Abstract
The Danube is promoted as a pan-European river, what can be justified for instance by the vast range of its drainage basin, covering 19 countries on both sides of the historical border diving Eastern and Western Europe. Differentiation of imaginations of Danube course from the perspective of 7 European cities, based on research covering 1577 respondents, conducted between 2005–2007 and 2016–2018 has been presented in the paper. Maps presenting the generalized imagination of river course have been generated for each city. It has been proved that in spite of substantial political, economical and symbolical importance of this river for big part of Europe, the course of Danube remains unknown for inhabitants of its Western part, in parallel to more correct recognition of the river by students from Eastern Europe. It has been shown that the perception does not change despite the progressing integration processes.
Highlights
The Danube occupies an important place in the European space due to its length or the surface of its drainage basin but mostly thanks to its pan-European character in economical and cultural terms. 10 countries it flows through and the further 9 ones lying in its drainage basin make Danube a kind of symbol of international cooperation and reconciliation between the East and the West of Europe
The simplicity of the data collection method allowed to eliminate the limitations related to different artistic abilities of the respondents [55], and the use of the kernel analysis method made it possible to obtain a social image of the perception of the river course, to the study of world map images, in which the fuzzy logic approach was applied in a similar way [56]
Little research has been conducted to present a synthetic image of perception of geographical objects [56], what is an additional value of the work
Summary
The Danube occupies an important place in the European space due to its length or the surface of its drainage basin but mostly thanks to its pan-European character in economical and cultural terms. 10 countries it flows through and the further 9 ones lying in its drainage basin make Danube a kind of symbol of international cooperation and reconciliation between the East and the West of Europe. The Danube occupies an important place in the European space due to its length or the surface of its drainage basin but mostly thanks to its pan-European character in economical and cultural terms. 10 countries it flows through and the further 9 ones lying in its drainage basin make Danube a kind of symbol of international cooperation and reconciliation between the East and the West of Europe. The researchers from the East of the continent perceive the Danube as the economical and cultural axis of Europe and the symbolical bridge linking the European family and the symbol of European integration [7].
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