The Eastern Beskids (in Slovak, Východné Beskydy, in Polish considered part of the Western Beskids, the Beskidy Zachodnie) is a set of mountain ranges spanning the northern Slovakian and southern Polish border.
Traditionally the Eastern Beskids are part of the Beskids, a term that differs according to historical and linguistic heritage. Geologically the Eastern Beskids are part of the Outer Western Carpathians.
The Eastern Beskids consist of:
- Sącz Beskids (PL: Beskid Sądecki) + Ľubovňa Highlands (SK: Ľubovnianska vrchovina)
- Čergov (SK) + Czerchów Mountains (PL: Góry Czerchowskie)
- Pieniny (often considered part of the Podhôľno-magurská oblasť in non-geomorphological systems)
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Famous quotes containing the word eastern:
“Midway the lake we took on board two manly-looking middle-aged men.... I talked with one of them, telling him that I had come all this distance partly to see where the white pine, the Eastern stuff of which our houses are built, grew, but that on this and a previous excursion into another part of Maine I had found it a scarce tree; and I asked him where I must look for it. With a smile, he answered that he could hardly tell me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)