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Cruising the Danube from Budapest to Vienna through centuries of Jewish history - review

· By LAURI DONAHUE
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In the Roman city of Aquincum (now Budapest) around the year 200 CE, a centurion named Aelius Silvanus died at the venerable age of 86, having served a remarkable 61 years in his legion, and was buried beside his daughter, Aelia.

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