Polonynian Beskids or Polonyne Beskids ( uk, Полонинські Бескиди; pl, Beskidy Połonińskie) is a geological group of mountain ranges of the

Eastern Beskids The Eastern Beskids or Eastern Beskyds ( uk, Східні Бескиди; pl, Beskidy Wschodnie; rue, Выходны Бескиды; ro, Beskizii Orientali; russian: Восточные Бескиды) are a geological group of mountain ranges o ...

, within the

Outer Eastern Carpathians Divisions of the Carpathians are a categorization of the Carpathian mountains system. Below is a detailed overview of the major subdivisions and ranges of the Carpathian Mountains. The Carpathians are a "subsystem" of a bigger Alps-Himalaya Sy ...

. It is one of two parallel mountain ridges of the Eastern Beskids, situated in western parts of modern

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inva ...

. They are stretching parallel to the Wooded Beskids on the northeast, and Vihorlat-Gutin Area to the southwest.Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Polonynian Beskyd
/ref> The name of this mountain range is derived from Slavic term '' polonyna'', designating a particular type of montane meadows, characteristic for those parts of the

Carpathians The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians () are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe. Roughly long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Urals at and the Scandinavian Mountains at . The range stretche ...

. Thus, the very term ''polonyne'' or ''polonynian'' Beskids translates as ''Meadowed Beskids''. In Polish and Ukrainian terminology, this range is most commonly called the "Polonynian Beskids" ( uk, Полонинські Бескиди; pl, Beskidy Połoniński), while in Slovakia it is also defined in a much wider sense, under the local term ''Poloniny'' ( sk, Poloniny). The territorial scope of all those terms varies in accordance to different classifications and traditions.

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Polonynian Beskids include: *

Smooth Polonyna Smooth may refer to: Mathematics * Smooth function, a function that is infinitely differentiable; used in calculus and topology * Smooth manifold, a differentiable manifold for which all the transition maps are smooth functions * Smooth algebr ...

(PL: Połonina Równa; UK: Полонина Рівна) → c6 *

Polonyna Borzhava Polonyna may refer to: * Polonyna (montane meadow) Polonyna ( uk, полонина, polonyna; rue, полонина, polonyna; pl, połonina; sk, polonina) is a specific, regionally-focused geographic term, that is used as a designation fo ...

(PL: Połonina Borżawska; UK: Полонина Боржава) → c7 *

Polonyna Kuk Polonyna may refer to: * Polonyna (montane meadow) Polonyna ( uk, полонина, polonyna; rue, полонина, polonyna; pl, połonina; sk, polonina) is a specific, regionally-focused geographic term, that is used as a designation fo ...

(PL: Połonina Kuk; UK: Полонина Кук) → c8 *

Red Polonyna Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet. It has a dominant wavelength of approximately 625–740 nanometres. It is a primary color in the RGB color model and a secondary ...

(PL: Połonina Czerwona; UK: Полонина Красна)→ c9 *

Svydovets The Svydovets (Ukrainian Свидовець; Polish ''Świdowiec''; Czech and Slovak ''Svidovec''; German ''Swydiwez'') is a mountain range in western Ukraine, one of the ranges of Eastern Beskids, itself belonging to the Outer Eastern Carpath ...

(PL: Świdowiec; UK: Свидівець) → c10 *

Chornohora Chornohora (literally: "Black Mountain"; uk, Чорногора, romanized: ''Chornohora'') is the highest mountain range in Western Ukraine. It is within the Polonynian Beskids, a subgroup of the mountain group of Eastern Beskids, which in tu ...

(PL: Czarnohora; UK: Чорногора) → c11 * Hrynyavy Mountains (PL: Połoniny Hryniawskie; UK: Гриняви) → c12

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Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Beskyds

Carpathian Mountains: Division (map)
{{Authority control Mountain ranges of the Eastern Carpathians Mountain ranges of Ukraine

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