They comprise some 900 border miles of several Eastern European countries.
Oh, I would so love to travel to Eastern Europe to see the Carpathian Mountains in person. They look absolutely magnificent and to think that some of my ancestors actually were there!
The Carpathian Mountains are the eastern wing of the great Central Mountain System of Europe, curving 1500 km (~900 miles) along the borders of Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine, Austria, Serbia, and northern Hungary.
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Carpathian Mountains at a glance
The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians (; Czech, Polish and Slovak: Karpaty; Ukrainian: ??????? (Karpaty); German: Karpaten; Serbian: Karpati / ???????; Hungarian: Kárpátok) are a range of mountains forming an arc of roughly 1,500 km across Central and Eastern Europe, making them the largest mountain range in Europe. They provide the habitat for the largest populations in Europe of brown bears, wolves, chamois and lynxes, with the highest concentration in Romania,[http://www.human-wildlife.info/images/Europa%20Baer.JPG ] [http://www.human-wildlife.info/images/Europa%20Wolf.JPG ] [http://www.human-wildlife.info/images/Europa%20Luchs.JPG ] as well as over one third of all European plant species.Carpathian montane conifer forests - Encyclopedia of Earth
The chain of mountain ranges stretches in an arc from the Czech Republic in the northwest to Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine and Romania in the east, to the Iron Gates on the Danube River between Romania and Serbia in the south. The highest range within the Carpathians are the Tatras, on the border of Poland and Slovakia, where the highest peaks exceed 2600 meters in elevation, followed by the Southern Carpathians in Romania, where the highest peaks exceed 2500 meters in elevation. The Carpathian chain is usually divided into three major parts: the Western Carpathians (Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary), the Eastern Carpathians (Southeastern Poland, Eastern Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania) and the Southern Carpathians (Romania, SerbiaABOUT THE CARPATHIANS - Carpathian Heritage Society).
The most important cities in or near the Carpathians are Bratislava and Ko?ice in Slovakia, Krakow in Poland, Cluj-Napoca and Bra?ov in Romania, and Miskolc in Hungary.
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Based on the real-life experience of seven men (including the author's own father) who escaped war-torn Europe and the constant pursuit of Nazi agents from 1939 through 1945, Carpathian Story follows the endless trek for freedom that a generation endured with the dream of reaching America. Carpathian Story captures the essence of what it meant to be on the run during one of the most turbulent times the world has ever known. Their desire to become Americans never dimmed in spite of the hardships of loneliness, fatigue, and the constant chase by Nazi agents posing as military police in search of soldiers missing from front lines. Their struggle to escape the Nazi regime turns their world upside-down and will provide the reader renewed distaste for what is recognized as one of the darkest periods in the history of mankind. These seven men, gentle and strong, became legends in their time as they beat all odds and gained for themselves and their families the reality of a vision they held in their hearts - the dream of one day becoming Americans. And true Americans they did indeed become.
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Map of Carpathian subdivisions -- See info below.
Carpathian subdivisions
1 Outer Western Carpathians:
Austrian - South-Moravian Carpathians
Central Moravian Carpathians
Slovak-Moravian Carpathians
West-Beskidian Piedmont
Western Beskids
Central Beskids
Eastern Beskids
Podhale-Magura Area
2 Inner Western Carpathians:
Slovenske rudohorie (Slovak Ore Mountains)
Fatra-Tatra Area
Slovenske stredohorie
Lucensko-kosicka znizenina
Matra-Slanec Area/Northern Medium Mountains
South Eastern Carpathians (= Eastern Carpathians in a wider sense):
Eastern Carpathians:
3 Outer Eastern Carpathians:
Central Beskidian Piedmont
Low Beskids
Eastern Beskids
Moldavian-Muntenian Carpathians
Eastern Subcarpathians
4 Inner Eastern Carpathians:
Vihorlat-Gutin Area
Bistrita Mountains
Caliman-Harghita Mountains
Giurgeu-Brasov Depression
Rakhiv Massif and Maramures Mountains
Maramures Depression
Rodna Mountains
5 Southern Carpathians (also known as Transylvanian Alps):
Fagaras Mountains group
Parang Mountains group
Retezat-Godeanu Mountains group
6 Romanian Western Carpathians:
Apuseni Mountains
Poiana Rusca Mountains (sometimes considered part of the Southern Carpathians)
Banat Mountains (sometimes considered part of the Southern Carpathians)
7 Transylvanian Plateau (sometimes not considered part of the Carpathians at all):
Transylvanian Plateau
Mures-Turda Depression
Fagaras Depression
Sibiu Depression
8 Serbian Carpathians (sometimes considered part of the Southern Carpathians, or not considered part of the Carpathians at all)
Outer Carpathian Depressions (they surround the Carpathians and are normally considered part of the corresponding adjacent above main groups)
The Mountains of Romania
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Carpathian Mountains aka ...
German: Karpaten
Hungarian: Karpatok
Polish, Czech, and Slovak: Karpaty
Romanian: Muntii Carpati
Serbian: Karpati
Ukrainian: Karpaty
Origin of the Name: Carpathian
The name 'Karpetes' may ultimately be from the Proto Indo-European root *sker-/*ker-, from which comes the Albanian word karpë "rock", perhaps by Dacian cognate which meant 'mountain,' rock, or rugged (cf. Old Norse harfr "harrow", Middle Low German shcarf "potsherd", Lithuanian kar~pas "cut, hack, notch", Latvian cìrpt "to shear, clip").Archaic Polish word karpa meant "rugged irregularities, underwater obstacles/rocks, rugged roots or trunks". The more common word skarpa is sharp cliff or other vertical terrain. Otherwise, the name may instead come from IE *kwerp "to turn", akin to Old English hweorfan "to turn, change" and Greek karpós "wrist", perhaps referring to the way the mountain range bends or veers in an L-shape.
In late Roman documents, the Eastern Carpathian Mountains were referred to as Montes Sarmatici. The Western Carpathians were called Carpates. The name Carpates is first recorded in Ptolemy's Geography. Around 310 AD the Carpathians are mentioned as Montes Serrorum by the Flavius Galerius Valerius Licinianus Licinius.
The name of the Carpi, a Dacian tribe may have been derived from the name of the Carpathian Mountains. Name recorded in late Roman Empire documents (Zosimus) as living until 381 on the Eastern Carpathian slopes. Alternatively the mountain range's name may be derived from the Dacian tribe.
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Carpathian Mountains Geography
The Carpathians begin on the Danube near Bratislava. They surround Transcarpathia and Transylvania in a large semicircle, sweeping towards the south-west, and end on the Danube near Orsova, in Romania. The total length of the Carpathians is over 1,500 km, and the mountain chain's width varies between 12 and 500 km. The greatest width of the Carpathians corresponds with its highest altitudes. The system attains its greatest breadth in the Transylvanian plateau and in the meridian of the Tatra group (the highest range, with Gerlachovsky stit, at 2,655 m (8,705 feet) above sea level in Slovak territory near the Polish border). It covers an area of 190,000 km² and, after the Alps, is the most extensive mountain system in Europe.Although commonly referred to as a mountain chain, the Carpathians do not actually form an uninterrupted chain of mountains. Rather, they consist of several orographically and geologically distinctive groups, presenting as great a structural variety as the Alps. The Carpathians, which in only a few places attain an altitude of over 2,500 m, lack the bold peaks, extensive snow-fields, large glaciers, high waterfalls, and numerous large lakes that are common in the Alps. No area of the Carpathian range is covered in snow year-round and there are no glaciers. The Carpathians at their highest altitude are only as high as the Middle Region of the Alps, with which they share a common appearance, climate, and flora.
The Carpathians are separated from the Alps by the Danube. The two ranges meet only at one point: the Leitha Mountains at Bratislava. The river also separates them from the Stara Planina, or "Balkan Mountains," at Orsova, Romania. The valley of the March and Oder separates the Carpathians from the Silesian and Moravian chains, which belong to the middle wing of the great Central Mountain System of Europe. Unlike the other wings of the system, the Carpathians, which form the watershed between the northern seas and the Black Sea, are surrounded on all sides by plains, namely the Pannonian plain on the southwest, the plain of the Lower Danube (Romania) on the south, and the Galician plain on the northeast.
Ethnic Geography of the Hungarian Minorities in the Carpathian Basin
by Karoly Kocsis
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Distribution of various ethnic populations in a critical and turbulent region of Europe where seventeen languages are spoken.
Carpathian Mountains Geology
The Carpathian Mountains were formed during the Alpine orogeny.
Alpine orogeny at a glance
The Alpine orogeny (sometimes also called Alpide orogeny) is an orogenic phase in the Tertiary that formed the mountain ranges of the Alpide belt. These mountains include (from west to east) the Atlas, the Pyrenees, the Alps, the Dinaric Alps, the Hellenides, the Carpathians, the Balkan, the Taurus, the Caucasus, the Alborz, the Zagros, the Hindu Kush, the Pamir, the Karakoram, and the Himalayas. Sometimes other names occur to describe the formation of separate mountain ranges: for example Carpathean orogeny for the Carpathians, Hellenic orogeny for the Hellenides or the Himalayan orogeny for the Himalayas.
It also led to the formation of more distant, but smaller geological features such as the Weald-Artois Anticline in Southern England/Northern France (the remains of which can be seen in the chalk ridges of the North and South Downs in southern England). Its effects are particularly visible on the Isle of Wight (where the Chalk Formation and overlying Eocene strata are folded to near-vertical, as seen in exposures at Alum Bay and Whitecliff Bay) and on the Dorset coast near Lulworth Cove.
The Alpine orogeny occurred when the continents Africa and India and the small Cimmerian plate collided (from the south) with Eurasia in the north. Convergent movements between the tectonic plates (the Indian plate and the African plate from the south, the Eurasian plate from the north, and many smaller plates and microplates) began already in the early Cretaceous, but the major phases of mountain building began in the Paleocene to Eocene. Currently the process still continues in some of the Alpide mountain ranges.
The Alpine orogeny is considered one of the three major phases of orogeny in Europe that define the geology of that continent. The three are:
*the Caledonian orogeny that formed the Old Red Sandstone continent when the continents Baltica and Laurentia collided in the early Paleozoic.
*the Hercynian or Variscan orogeny that formed Pangaea when Gondwana and the Old Red Sandstone continent collided in the middle to late Paleozoic.
*the Alpine orogeny itself.
Atlas of Seeds and Fruits of Central and East-European Flora: The Carpathian Mountains Region
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The Carpathian flora occurs not only in the Carpathian Mountains, but also in large lowlands extending towards the south, north and east and involves introduced and invading flora of more than 7,500 species. Since the morphological characteristics of the seeds are usually constant they are very important for determination of systematic units. The present atlas of seeds with nearly 4,800 seed illustrations is supplemented with detailed seed descriptions, brief plant descriptions, locality and the native source of plants.
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8. Hora Mare Din Bucovina
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14. Bukovinian Note Of Mohur
15. Harry Kandel's Hora
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