Abstract
In this article the author tries to answer the question if the river Danube - as a natural element - has an authentic role in the formation and shaping of the geographical space in its basin. Except the centuries after the foundation of the Hungarian Kingdom, the development of the region was influenced by external powers: Rome, Byzantium, Moscow and the German sphere of interests. The effects are manifested in many fields of life ranging from culture, to economy, trade and geopolitics. If the expansion of the powers was perpendicular to the Danube (by Rome and Moscow), the border character was strengthened; if it was parallel, then the corridor character came to the front. As a result it is visible that the role of the Danube in the evolution of spatial structures was not highly relevant, but rather regional and temporal until today.
Highlights
The Danube region is on of the most interesting and controversial areas of Europe in geographical and historical viewpoint, ; due to the Danube Strategy it is especially suitable to deal with topical issues as well
Transformation of the spatial structure, appearance and rise of the Hungarian Kingdom The tribe incursions that invigorated since the middle of the fourth century led to the weakening, and later, by the last third of the fifth century, to the fall of the empire
A – from the antiquity fundamentally different – multipole power structure came into existence along the river (Figure 2) with the Hungarian Kingdom that was consolidated in the Carpathian-basin around the turn of the millennium
Summary
The Danube region is on of the most interesting and controversial areas of Europe in geographical and historical viewpoint, ; due to the Danube Strategy it is especially suitable to deal with topical issues as well. Constantinople remained – though often with an Asian centre of gravity – far the most important centre of power on the east side of the continent, while the western territories of Europe were subordinate by the Frankish Empire that was loosely organized at the beginning, but centralized and spatially extended under Charles the Big. For a short period the Avars settled down in the Middle-Danube-basin, they were followed by the Frankish.
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