摘要：The easily flooded region, or the Danube Holm, considered as a whole (from the Western Oltenia - all the way to the Isaccea Marsh, at Patlăgeanca) has always been called Balta (Dunării)/ The Marsh (of the Danube), not only by the local population, but also by all those who have known and used this low and humid land. “Balta”/ “Marsh” represents a term with regional meaning (similar to that of mountain or field), being also the name of a regional unit. This is a name that reflects completely the features of the designated geographical reality and it entered the geographic scientific literature - including the international one - as such. During the last half of century, the whole Danube Marsh was subject to man-made transformations, thus becoming an area with a different landscape and with a dominant agricultural function. However, it remained the same geographical individuality (still under the influence of the great river, although in a much smaller degree) and there is no reason to be considered another thing or named in a different way by the practitioners that are not in the habit of using the correct, long-established geographical names.
关键词：easily flooded region, The Danube Holm, The Danube Marsh
