title: Integrating the Danube into Modern Networks of Infrastructure: The Ottoman Contribution
abstract: For the Ottoman Empire, the Danube served as a border, but also as a means of communication and transport, although this function was restricted by the prevailing natural conditions of the river. Because of the geo-political, economic and technological developments of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, older connections with Eastern and Central Europe were substituted by global connections. This article examines the Ottoman role in this transformation of the Danube between 1830 and 1878. It 