White Carpathians within the geomorphological division of Slovakia and the Czech Republic
Countries
Slovakia and Czech Republic
Range coordinates
49°N18°E / 49°N 18°E / 49; 18
Parent range
Slovak-Moravian Carpathians
The White Carpathians (Czech: Bílé Karpaty; Slovak: Biele Karpaty; German: Weiße Karpaten) are a mountain range on the border of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, part of the Carpathians.
They are part of the macroregion of Slovak-Moravian Carpathians, stretching from the Váh river and the Little Carpathians in the south along the border between the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the Morava and the Javorníky range in the north.
The mean elevation is 473 m (1,552 ft) and the highest peaks are:
Velká Javořina/Veľká Javorina, 970 m (3,180 ft)
Chmeľová, 925 m (3,035 ft)
Jelenec, 925 m (3,035 ft)
Velký Lopeník/Veľký Lopeník, 911 m (2,989 ft)
Kobylinec, 911 m (2,989 ft)
The ruins of Lednica Castle
The landscape is protected on both sides of the mountains: Biele Karpaty Protected Landscape Area in Slovakia, founded in 1979, and Bílé Karpaty Protected Landscape Area in the Czech Republic, founded in 1980, a Man and Biosphere Reserve since 1996. The areas contain a wide variety of fauna and flora. Some species found there are endemic, especially some types of orchids which grow only in the meadows of the White Carpathians.
Lednica Castle is perhaps the most inaccessible one amongst the castles in Slovakia. It was built in the middle of the 13th century and was the seat of the Lednice estate. Austrian imperial troops destroyed it at the beginning of the 18th century. Only the remains of walls survive.
of the Carpathians. They are part of the macroregion of Slovak-Moravian Carpathians, stretching from the Váh river and the Little Carpathians in the south...
are three major provinces (regions): Western Carpathians, Eastern Carpathians, and the Southern Carpathians. The division is largely (with many exceptions)...
the WhiteCarpathians and Little Carpathians in the western Carpathians, the Vihorlat, Bukovec, and Biesczady mountains in the Eastern Carpathians, and...
(Czech: chráněná krajinná oblast) located across the region: the WhiteCarpathians Landscape Park, the Moravian Karst Landscape Park and Pálava Landscape...
Myjava Hills and the WhiteCarpathians reach into the area. The fertile Danubian Lowland is located south of the Little Carpathians, again with two subdivisions:...
the WhiteCarpathians. The original core territory of Great Moravia, nowadays forming the eastern part of Moravia and situated between the White Carpathians...
with Smrk (1278 m), and then south from here Javorníky (1072). The WhiteCarpathians along the southeastern border rise up to 970 m at Velká Javořina....
Landscape Area protects the Slovak part of the WhiteCarpathians, part of the Slovak-Moravian Carpathians, in West Slovakia. The area stretches from Skalica...
Romania. There are a few Greeks in Carpathian Ruthenia. They are also known as Carpatho-Greeks and Greek-Carpathians.[citation needed] For 19th-century...
Javorník at 1,071 meters (3,514 ft). The range stretches from the WhiteCarpathians in the south to the Beskids in the north. The range divides the Bečva...
and eastern) base of the Carpathian arc, including foothills of the Outer Western Carpathians and Outer Eastern Carpathians. It stretches from northeastern...
stabilized by the victory at the battle of Ongal south of the eastern Carpathians. The Bulgarians turned on Byzantium who had established an alliance with...
general commonality between Slavic people living West and East of the WhiteCarpathians was based on language. In the late 16th century the Bible was first...
Slavs remained separated by the natural border formed by Little and WhiteCarpathians, respected by both sides according to Ján Steinhübel. He also writes...
The Carpathian goat is a usually white-coated breed from southeastern Europe (including Romania and Poland) is used for the production of meat and milk...
Gerecse Hills. They regularly visited the Bükk Mountains and the WhiteCarpathians to collect raw material for their tools. Ibex was the main prey of...
been called "White Croats". However, in DAI there's seemingly no contradiction between "white" and "great" Croatia north of the Carpathians, possibly meaning...
243 sq mi Třeboňsko Třeboň Basin 1979 700 km2 270 sq mi Bílé Karpaty WhiteCarpathians 1980 71.5 km2 27.6 sq mi Blaník Blaník 1981 40 km2 15 sq mi Blanský...
opened the following year. White Elephant is also a name of a former Polish astronomical observatory built in the Carpathian Mountains in 1938 (now Ukraine)...
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