During the 1st millennium BC, they were spoken across Europe, in the Iberian Peninsula, from the Atlantic and North Sea coastlines, up the Rhine valley and down the Danube valley to the Black Sea, the Upper Balkan Peninsula, and in Galatia in Asia Minor.

During the twenty year period following the reversion of the frontier to Hadrian's Wall, Rome was concerned with continental issues, primarily problems in the Danube provinces.

During Justinian's reign, the Balkans suffered from several incursions by the Turkic and Slavic peoples who lived north of the Danube.

During the following winter, King Decebalus launched a counter-attack across the Danube further downstream, but this was repulsed.

During his reign, the Goths secured control of Illyricum after the Gothic War, establishing their homeland south of the Danube within the empire's borders.

During a later division of territory among the heirs of Duke Louis II, Duke of Upper Bavaria, in 1294, the elder branch of the Wittelsbachs came into possession of both the Rhenish Palatinate and the territories in the Bavarian " Nordgau " ( Bavaria north of the Danube river ) with the centre around the town of Amberg.

During the following centuries, Bavarian settlers went down the Danube and up the Alps, a process through which Austria was to become the mostly German-speaking country it is today.

During the late Roman Empire, several Roman provinces covered the territory that comprises present-day Bulgaria: Scythia ( Scythia Minor ), Moesia ( Upper and Lower ), Thrace, Macedonia ( First and Second ), Dacia ( Coastal and Inner, both south of Danube ), Dardania, Rhodope ( Roman province ) and Haemismontus, and had a mixed population of Byzantine Greeks, Thracians and Dacians, most of whom spoke either Greek or variants of Vulgar Latin.

During the reign of Khan Omurtag ( 814-831 ), the northwestern boundaries with the Frankish Empire were firmly settled along the middle Danube.

During the fall of 376, the Romans helped Alavivus and Fritigern's people cross the Danube and settle in the province of Moesia.

During the respite from the war against the Abbasids, Theophilos arranged for the abduction of the Byzantine captives settled north of the Danube by Krum of Bulgaria.

During his reign, the Rhine and Danube frontier was strengthened after successful wars against several Germanic tribes such as the Goths, Alamanni, Longiones, Franks, Burgundians, and Vandals.

During the fall, they crossed the Danube and began ravaging the province of Pannonia Valeria.

During his brief reign, Decius engaged in important operations against the Goths, who crossed the Danube to raid districts of Moesia and Thrace.

During late 430 and 431 Aëtius was in Raetia and Noricum, and is attested in the city of Vindelicia, re-establishing Roman rule on the Danube frontier and campaigning against the Juthungi.

During the following winter, King Decebalus launched a counter-attack across the Danube further downstream, but this was repulsed.

During the reign of Augustus, the Celts living south of the Danube were conquered by the Romans.

During his short reign, Carus fought the Germanic tribes and Sarmatians along the Danube frontier with success.

During the winter of 466 / 467 he defeated a group of Huns, led by Hormidac, who had crossed the frozen Danube and were pillaging the Dacia.

During the Duke's march to the Danube Emperor Leopold I offered to make Marlborough a prince of the Holy Roman Empire in the small principality of Mindelheim.

During the Mandate of Iraq ( 1920 – 32 ), the British advisors in Iraq were able to keep the waterway binational under the presitful principle that worked in Europe ( see Danube River ): the dividing line was a line drawn between the deepest points along the stream bed.

During the Great War ( 1683 – 90 ) between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League — created with the sponsorship of the Pope and including Austria, Poland and Venice — these three powers as means of divide and conquer strategy, incited including Serbs to rebel against the Ottoman authorities and soon uprisings and terrorism spread throughout the western Balkans: from Montenegro and the Dalmatian Coast to the Danube basin and Old Serbia ( Macedonia, Raška, Kosovo and Metohija ).

During late Antiquity and Middle Ages, the major influences came from the Slavic peoples who migrated and settled south of the Danube ; from medieval Greeks, and the Byzantine Empire ; from a long domination by the Ottoman Empire ; from the Hungarians ; and from the Germans living in Transylvania.

During a sojourn of slightly more than three months Chamberlain Littlepage could see action on both elements.

During the sojourn in the city ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá grew from a boy into a young man.

During his sojourn in Palencia, Spain experienced a dreadful famine, prompting Dominic to sell all of his beloved books and other equipment to help his neighbors.

During his sojourn, he addressed a conference of the Nepali Ambassadors and Head of Missions

During his sojourn in Tübingen in 1536 Melanchthon was severely attacked by Cordatus, preacher in Niemeck, because he had taught that works are necessary for salvation.

During his sojourn in northern Italy, Frederick also invested the Teutonic Order with the territories in what would become East Prussia, starting what was later called the Northern Crusade.

" During their sojourn in Babylonia our ancestors began to use the pagan Babylonian month names, a fact readily admitted in the Talmud:

During their sojourn, the Orléans princes travelled throughout the country, visiting as far south as Nashville and as far north as Maine.

During his two-year sojourn in Russia, Borrow called upon writer Alexander Pushkin.

During the long sojourn in space, she has become addicted to alcohol and unravels when she is unable to get a drink.

During their sojourn at Constantinople the envoys received complaints from the Greeks against the Roman church, which they reported to the pope.

During his sojourn there he was the highest paid musician and served as the organist of the Florence baptistery for a year.

During his three day sojourn in Perast he presented his legendary sword to the town, as the sign of his recognition to their efforts to defend their homeland, and to stop the approach of the Ottoman Empire to Middle Europe.

During his sojourn in Spain, William was given a rock crystal vase by a Muslim ally that he later bequeathed to his granddaughter Eleanor.

During the expedition's sojourn on the island, one sailor was killed by natives ; twelve islanders were killed in the ensuing battle with the Americans.

During his lengthy sojourn in Egypt, René Guénon carried on an austere and simple life, entirely dedicated to his writings and spiritual development.

During his long sojourn in İstanbul, Aivazovsky was commissioned for a number of paintings as a court painter by the Ottoman Sultans Abdülmecid, Abdulaziz and Abdulhamid, 30 of which are currently on display in the Ottoman Imperial Palace, the Dolmabahce Museum and many other museums in Turkey.

During this sojourn, He succeeded in securing the approval of his church for his educational plans, and in arousing much interest in the work of foreign missions.

During his sojourn with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq, Gavin Young noted that the local sayyids – " venerated men accepted ... as descendants of the Prophet Mohammed " – wore dark blue keffiyeh, in contrast to the black-and-white checker ones typical of the area's inhabitants.

During his sojourn in England he was found guilty of being absent without leave over the new year of 1918 and was given field punishment and a forfeit of pay.

During his sojourn, he and his ministers bear sons.

During his sojourn here he produced the vaudevilles Die Wiener in Berlin ( 1824 ), and Die Berliner in Wien ( 1825 ), pieces which enjoyed at the time great popular favour.

During his sojourn on Bentan, he explored neighbouring Temasek Island ( modern Singapore ) in search of a site to build a fortified town or city.

During his sojourn in Paris for the staging of Le Marché des Innocents, Petipa acquired a scenario from the dramatist Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges for a ballet titled The Pharaoh's Daughter, inspired by Théophile Gautier's Le Roman de la Momie.