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Group of mountain ranges in Ukraine
The term
Wooded Carpathians
(
Ukrainian
:
Л?сист? Карпати
,
romanized
:
Lisysti Karpaty
;
Polish
:
Karpaty Lesiste
;
Hungarian
:
Erd?s-Karpatok
;
German
:
Waldkarpaten
) refers to a group of mountain ranges that constitute the central section of
Eastern Carpathians
, covering both
inner
and
outer
regions of that section. Geographical scope of the term varies, since it is often used in broader or narrower sense, according to different classifications and terminological conventions. It is traditionally and most commonly applied to a wider group of mountain ranges that encompasses all mountains within central section of
Outer Eastern Carpathians
, including
Eastern Beskids
with
Polonynian Beskids
, and also all mountains within northern section of
Inner Eastern Carpathians
, including
Vihorlat-Gutin Area
and
Maramure?-Rodna Area
. In that sense, Wooded Carpathians are stretching from the southeastern corner of
Poland
and far eastern corner of
Slovakia
, through western parts of
Ukraine
, encompassing all of the
Ukrainian Carpathians
, and continuing into the northern region of
Romania
.
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The term
Wooded Carpathians
should not be confused with partially overlapping terms like
Ukrainian Carpathians
,
Eastern Beskids
or
Wooded Beskids
, that are defined by different criteria.
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In wider sense, Wooded Carpathians include:
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- Foldvary, Gabor Z. (1988).
Geology of the Carpathian Region
. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company.
ISBN
9789813103825
.
- Ilie Gherhes, "Romanian Human Habitat and Atypical Volohs' Living in the Wooded Carpathians (Ukraine)", Journal of Settlements and Spatial Planning, 4/2 (2013), pp. 341?345.
- Michael Schneeberger, Frank-Michael Lange, Die rumanischen Waldkarpaten: Maramure?, Vi?eu de Sus und ein Abstecher in die Bukowina, Schelzky und Jeep 1998.
- Filip ?wistu?, Galicyjskie Beskidy i Karpaty Lesiste: Zarys orograficzn, Rzeszow 1876.
- Tasenkevich, Lydia (2009). "Polonynas: Highlands Pastures in the Ukrainian Carpathians".
Grasslands in Europe: Of High Nature Value
. Zeist: KNNV Publishing. pp. 203?208.
ISBN
9789004278103
.
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