carpathians

     

The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians (Romanian: Carpaţi; Czech, Polish an Slovak: Karpaty; Ukrainian: Карпати (Karpaty); German: Karpaten; Serbian: Karpati / Карпати; Hungarian: Kárpátok) are a range of mountains forming an arc of roughly 1,500 km across Central and Eastern Europe. They provide the habitat for the largest populations in Europe of brown bears, wolves and lynxes, all concentrated in Romania, as well as over one third of all European plant species.

Trivia about carpathians

  • The spine of the country is formed by these mountains, the eastward continuation of the Alps
  • As a boy, Lugosi lived not far from these mountains, home to the legendary Count Dracula
  • The Dnestr & Vistula rivers rise in these mountains
  • This range forms an arc from Slovakia to Romania with both ends lying on the Danube river

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