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The Great Hungarian Plain (also known as Alföld or Great Alföld, Hungarian: Alföld or Nagy Alföld) [1] [2] is a plain occupying the majority of the modern territory of Hungary. It is the largest part of the wider Pannonian Plain (however, the Great Hungarian Plain was not part of the ancient Roman province Pannonia ).
For a thousand years, people lived in loose-knit farming communities scattered across this plain. But by 5000 B.C., these farming families began clustering together to construct fortified settlements—longhouses occupied by clan groups, surrounded by a protective perimeter wall and ditch.
The plain or basin is diagonally bisected by the Transdanubian Mountains, separating the larger Great Hungarian Plain (including the Eastern Slovak Lowland) from the Little Hungarian Plain. It forms a topographically discrete unit set in the European landscape, surrounded by imposing geographic boundaries—the Carpathian Mountains to north and ...
The Little Hungarian Plain or Little Alföld (Hungarian: Kisalföld [ˈkiʃɒlføld], Slovak: Malá dunajská kotlina, German: Kleine Ungarische Tiefebene) is a plain (tectonic basin) of approximately 8,000 km² in northwestern Hungary, south-western Slovakia (Podunajská nížina – Danubian Lowland), and eastern Austria.
The Great Hungarian Plain (also known as Alföld or Great Alföld, Hungarian: Alföld [ˈɒlføld] or Nagy Alföld) is a plain occupying the majority of the modern territory of Hungary. It is the largest part of the wider Pannonian Plain (however, the Great Hungarian Plain was not part of the ancient Roman province Pannonia).
Great Alfold, a flat, fertile lowland, southeastern Hungary, also extending into eastern Croatia, northern Serbia, and western Romania. Its area is 40,000 square miles (100,000 square km), about half in Hungary. In its natural state the Great Alfold is a steppeland broken up with floodplain groves.
The Great Hungarian Plain is the largest macro-region in the Carpathian Basin. In the chapter, the evolutionary models of the region will be described, and also a general picture will be drawn on the evolution of its lithology, morphology, hydrology, climate and vegetation.
To unravel the complex history of the central portion of the basin, known as the Great Hungarian Plain, Balázs et al. used seismic sequence stratigraphy to develop an integrated conceptual...
The Nagy-Magyar Alföld, the Great Hungarian Plain, lies within the Carpathian crescent, between the last foothills of the Alps and the South Slavic and Transylvanian mountain ranges. The Danube and the Tisza meander slowly through it, carrying their muddy waters to the narrow passage of the Iron Gates.
Hortobágy National Park – the Puszta is located on the Great Hungarian Plain in eastern Hungary, near to Debrecen, the country’s second largest city after Budapest. It forms part of the...