Slovak-Moravian Carpathians

The Slovak-Moravian Carpathians (CZ/SK: Slovensko-moravské Karpaty) are the mountain ranges along the border of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Before the Treaty of Trianon in 1920, it was known in Hungarian as Magyar-morva határhegység 'the Hungarian-Moravian border mountains'.[1]

Slovak-Moravian Carpathians, marked in red and labeled with C

Geologically these ranges are part of the Outer Western Carpathians group of the Western Carpathians, and are composed mainly of flysch sediment.

Vršatec klippe of the White Carpathians, near Vršatské Podhradie

The Slovak-Moravian Carpathians consist of:

References

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  1. ^ "Magyar-morva határhegység - Lexikon ::".

49°3′36″N 17°57′36″E / 49.06000°N 17.96000°E / 49.06000; 17.96000