Institute of Geography, Pedagogical University of Krakow, Krakow, Poland.
PLoS One. 2021 Dec 2;16(12):e0260848. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0260848. eCollection 2021.
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.
多瑙河被宣传为一条泛欧河流，其流域范围广泛，覆盖了历史上划分东欧和西欧的边界两侧的 19 个国家，这一点可以得到证明。本文介绍了从 7 个欧洲城市的角度对多瑙河河道的想象差异，该研究基于 2005-2007 年和 2016-2018 年期间对 1577 名受访者的调查。为每个城市生成了表示河道综合想象的地图。事实证明，尽管这条河对欧洲大部分地区具有重要的政治、经济和象征意义，但对于其西部的居民来说，多瑙河的河道仍然不为人知，而东欧的学生对这条河的认识则更为准确。研究表明，尽管一体化进程不断推进，这种看法也没有改变。
