In 504 the Gepids' power was significantly reduced by the Ostrogoths, who cut short their expansion into the Danubian plains.
The main agricultural regions of the country were the Danubian plain and Thrace.
The village of Vardim is located in the central part of the Danubian plain about 10 km east of Svishtov towards Ruse.
The most striking example of this is perhaps the frontier in the Danubian plain between the Ottoman empire and the Habsburg territories in central Europe.
The day was bright now, clouds sent scudding southeast toward the lowlands, France, and beyond that the Alps, the Tyrol, the great Danubian plain.
On the edge of the Danubian plain and Stara Planina, Petrevene lies almost entirely on the left bank of Panega river.
This is lower than the standard precipitation for the Danubian plain as its proximity to Stara Planina means that the annual rainfall is lower.
Athanaric and his supporters avoided battle; his army abandoned the Danubian plains and retreated into the Carpathian mountains.
Crushed, however, at the Lechfeld near Augsburg in 955 by Otto I, they were forced to turn inwards to the settlement of the Danubian plain.
The valleys of Vit and Yantra divide the Danubian plain into three parts - western, central and eastern.