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The Pannonian Basin or Carpathian Basin is a large basin in Central Europe. The basin covers all of the nation of Hungary and Slovakia, as well as parts of Serbia, Croatia and Romania. It forms a topographically discrete unit set in the European landscape, surrounded by imposing geographic boundaries that have created a fairly unified cultural area that looks more towards the south and east than to the north and west. The rivers Danube and Tisza divide the basin roughly in half.

The geomorphological term Pannonian Plain is more widely used for roughly the same region though with a somewhat different sense (meaning only the lowlands). The term of "Pannonian Basin" was not in use until the end of World War I. The usage of "Pannonian Basin" or "Pannonian Plain" also causes semantic problems, because this term was constructed from the name of Pannonia, an ancient province of the Roman Empire. However the territorial parity of ancient Pannonia and modern Pannonian Basin is low.

Terminology

The term Carpathian Basin (named like this because of the long Carpathian border) has been translated from Hungarian literature, while the South Slavic languages, as well as Slovak and German, use the corresponding terms of Pannonian Basin. In English, both names can be used.

In Hungarian, the basin is known as Kárpát-medence, in Serbian Панонски басен/ Panonski basen, in Bosnian as Panonska nizija, in Croatian as Panonska nizina, in Slovak as Panónska kotlina, in Slovenian as Panonska kotlina and in German as Pannonisches Becken, in Romanian as Campia Panonica.

In the English language Pannonian Basin or Carpathian Basin are generally not used as geographical terms. Instead, the term Pannonian Plain is used in most sources, which refers to the lowland parts of the Pannonian Basin as well as those of some adjoining regions like Lower Austria, Moravia, Bosnia.

In 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.

Largest cities

See also

References

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  2. 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)
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  4. George Walter Hoffman, Nels August Bengtson (1953). A Geography of Europe. Ronald Press Co. p. 757. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month= and |coauthors= (help)
  5. http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Hungary
  7. municipalities of Zemun, Novi Beograd, Surcin and partially Palilula
  8. http://www.beograd.rs/cms/view.php?id=201906

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