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Outer Subcarpathia (; ; ; ) denotes the depression area at the outer (western, northern and eastern) base of the Carpathian arc, including foothills of the Outer Western Carpathians and Outer Eastern Carpathians. It stretches from northeastern Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Inner Carpathian Valley
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The western end is marked by the (northern) Vienna Basin, separating it from the Eastern Alpine Foreland. The adjacent hilly landscape of the Lower Austrian Weinviertel region with its extensive
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Outer Subcarpathia (; ; ; ) denotes the depression area at the outer (western, northern and eastern) base of the Carpathian arc, including foothills of the Outer Western Carpathians and Outer Eastern Carpathians. It stretches from northeastern Austria
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, through eastern Czech Republic
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, southern Poland
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, western Ukraine
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and northeastern Romania
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.
The opposite foothill regions on the inner side of the Carpathian arc are known as ''Inner Subcarpathia'', transitioning further to the Pannonian Basin
The Pannonian Basin, with the term Carpathian Basin being sometimes preferred in Hungarian literature, is a large sedimentary basin situated in southeastern Central Europe. After the Treaty of Trianon following World War I, the geomorpholog ...
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Geography
The western end is marked by the (northern) Vienna Basin, separating it from the Eastern Alpine Foreland. The adjacent hilly landscape of the Lower Austrian Weinviertel region with its extensive loess
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A loess ...
layers border on the limestone rock formations of the South-Moravian Carpathians.
In the Czech Republic, the depression is situated on the outskirts of the White Carpathians in Moravia
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The medieval and early ...
, including the Pálava Protected Landscape Area. In Poland they stretch along the Lesser Poland Voivodeship
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The province's name recalls the traditional name of a h ...
to the Podkarpackie Voivodeship, part of the Galicia historic region that leads to Ukraine (Lviv
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, Ivano-Frankivsk
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and Chernivtsi Oblast
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) and the Dniester
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Basin.
In Romania, the depression ends east of the Carpathian arc on the upper Moldova River within the Bukovina
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and Moldavia
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regions, bordering on the Wallachian Plain
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in the south.
Subdivisions
* Weinviertel Foothills (DE: ''Weinviertler Hügelland''; CZ: ''Weinviertelská pahorkatina''; PL: ''Pogórze Weinviertel'') *Dyje–Svratka Valley
The Dyje–Svratka Valley () is a valley and a geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic. It is located in the South Moravian Region. Its name is derived from the rivers Thaya (Dyje) and Svratka.
Geomorphology
The Dyje–Svratka Valley ...
(DE: ''Thaya-Schwarza-Talsenke''; CZ: ''Dyjsko-svratecký úval'') → A1.1
* Vyškov Gate (CZ: ''Vyškovská brána'') → A1.2
* Upper Morava Valley (CZ: ''Hornomoravský úval'') → A1.3
* Moravian Gate (CZ: ''Moravská brána'') → A1.4
* Ostrava Basin (CZ: ''Ostravská pánev'', PL: ''Kotlina Ostrawska'') → A1.5
* Oświęcim Basin (PL: ''Kotlina Oświęcimska'') → A1.6
* Kraków Gate Kraków Gate may refer to:
* Kraków Gate (Lublin)
* Kraków Gate (Ojców National Park)
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(PL: ''Brama Krakowska'') → A1.7
* Sandomierz Basin (PL: ''Kotlina Sandomierska'') + San-Dniester Plain (PL: ''Płaskowyż Sańsko-Dniestrzański''; UA: ''Сянсько-Дністровська рівнина'') → B1.1
* Upper Dniester Valley (UA: ''Верхньодністровська улоговина'') → B1.2
* Drohobych Highlands (PL: ''Wysoczyzna Drohobycka''; UA: ''Дрогобицька височина'') → B1.3
* Dniester Plain (UA: ''Придністровська рівнина'') → B1.4
* Pokutian Upland (UA: ''Покутська височина'') → B1.5
* Bukovinian Highlands (UA: ''Буковинське Прикарпаття''; RO: ''Podișul Bucovinei'') + Suceava Plateau (RO: ''Podișul Sucevei'') → B1.6
* Moldavia-Siret Groove (RO: ''Culoarul Moldova-Siret'') → B1.7
* Moldavian Subcarpathians (RO: ''Subcarpații Moldovei'') → B1.8
* Muntenian Subcarpathians (RO: ''Subcarpații Munteniei'') → B1.9
* Getic Subcarpathians (RO: ''Subcarpații Getici'') + Getic Plateau (RO: ''Podișul Getic'') → C1.1
See also
References
External links
Carpathian Mountains: Division (map)
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