Draft[1][2][3][4]is a name used for the geographical area in Central Europe surrounded by the Carpathian mountains. Carpathian Basin includes all the territories encircled by the Carpathians.
The basin is roughly bounded by the Carpathian mountains, the Alps, the Dinaric Alps and the Balkan mountains. The basin consists mainly of the Great Hungarian Plain (in the south and east) and the Little Alföld (in the northwest).
The Basin
editIn Hungarian geographical literature various subdivisions of the Carpathian Mountains (Inner Western Carpathians, Inner Eastern Carpathians, Southern Carpathians, Western Carpathians and Transylvanian Plateau) are also considered parts of the Carpathian Basin on the basis of traditional geopolitical divisions.
In Hungarian, the basin is known as Kárpát-medence. There is a related geographical term, Pannonian Basin, which covers a different, much smaller area, that doesn't include the Carpathian Mountains (See Pannonian Basin).
The basin forms a topographically discrete unit set in the European landscape, surrounded by imposing geographic boundaries that have created a fairly unified area that looks more towards the south and east than to the north and west.
Although rain is not plentiful, it usually falls when necessary and much of the basin is a major agricultural area, which potentially would be able to support a much larger population than the number of current inhabitants.
Another related geographical term is the Danube Basin, however being a much larger area it includes all the territory, covered by the tributaries of the Danube from Germany to the Ukraine.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Eldridge M. Moores, Rhodes Whitmore Fairbridge (1997). Encyclopedia of European and Asian Regional Geology. Springer. ISBN 0412740400, 9780412740404.
{{cite book}}: Check|isbn=value: invalid character (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters:|coauthors=and|month=(help) - ^ Adami Jordan, Peter Jordan, Milan Orožen Adamič (2007). Exonyms and the International Standardisation of Geographical Names: Approaches Towards the Resolution of an Apparent Contradiction. LIT Verlag Berlin-Hamburg-Münster. p. 240. ISBN 3825800350, 9783825800352.
{{cite book}}: Check|isbn=value: invalid character (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters:|month=and|coauthors=(help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ George Walter Hoffman, Christopher Shane Davies (1983). A Geography of Europe: Problems and Prospects. Wiley. p. 647. ISBN 0471897086, 9780471897088.
{{cite book}}: Check|isbn=value: invalid character (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters:|month=and|coauthors=(help) - ^ George Walter Hoffman, Nels August Bengtson (1953). A Geography of Europe. Ronald Press Co. p. 757.
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