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__NOTOC__ The Transdanubian Mountains (sometimes also referred to as ''Bakony Forest, Dunántúl Highlands, Highlands of Dunántúl, Highlands of Transdanubia, Mountains of Dunántúl, Mountains of Transdanubia, Transdanubian Central Range, Transdanubian Hills, Transdanubian Midmountains'' or ''Transdanubian Mid-Mountains'', ) are a mountain range in
Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...
covering about 7000 km2. Its highest peak is the ''
Pilis Pilis () is a town in Pest County, Hungary. History The town was inhabited in prehistoric times, but was abandoned at the end of the Roman rule. Pilis was then first mentioned in 1326. It was destroyed during the Ottoman rule in the 16th cen ...
'', with a height of .


Parts of the mountains

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Bakony Bakony () is a mountainous region in Transdanubia, Hungary. It forms the largest part of the Transdanubian Mountains. It is located north of Lake Balaton and lies almost entirely in Veszprém county. The Bakony is divided into the Northern and ...
** ''Southern Bakony'' ** ''Northern Bakony'' *** Keszthely Plateau *** Tapolca Basin *** Balaton Uplands **** Bakonyalja **** Sokoró Hills *
Vértes Mountains Vertes, Vértes or Vertès may refer to: *Eva Vertes (born 1985), American cancer researcher *Marcel Vertès (1895–1961), Hungarian costume designer *Vértes Hills, mountain range in Hungary **Battle of Vértes, 1051 *Les Négresses Vertes Le ...
** Vértesalja (Bársonyos) *
Velence Hills Velence Hills ( hu, Velencei-hegység) is a low mountain range in north-western Hungary, in the Central Transdanubian region. It lies to the north of Lake Velence, some 15 km to the east of city of Székesfehérvár. The Velence Hills are part ...
* Dunazug Mountains **
Gerecse Mountains Gerecse is a mountain range in north-western Hungary, that belongs to the Transdanubian Mountains Geography The range lies in the Central Transdanubian region and connects Vértes Hills with Pilis Mountains in Komárom-Esztergom County, betw ...
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Buda Hills The Buda Hills ( Hungarian: ''Budai-hegység'') are a low mountain range of numerous hills which dot the Buda side of Budapest, capital of Hungary. The most famous ones located within city limits are Gellért Hill, Castle Hill, Rózsadomb, , J ...
** Pilis Mountains
Visegrád Mountains The Visegrád Mountains (Hu: ''Visegrádi hegység'') is a mountain range in Hungary, not far from Budapest. Geography The Visegrád Mountains are the direct northern neighbour of the Pilis Mountains. Although the two ranges form a geograph ...
are often considered a part of it for geopolitical reasons, but geographically they are part of the
North Hungarian Mountains The North Hungarian Mountains ( hu, Északi-középhegység), sometimes also referred to as the Northeast Hungarian Mountains, Northeast Mountains, North Hungarian Highlands, North Hungarian Mid-Mountains or North Hungarian Range, is the norther ...
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Gallery

File:Gulács01.jpg File:Pliocene Volcanoes near Lake Balaton in Hungary.jpg File:View to Örsi hill from Port of Fonyód, 2016 Hungary.jpg File:Bakony 3.jpg


References


Sources


https://www.arcanum.hu/hu

http://www.karpat-medence.hu
(In Hungarian)


See also

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Transdanubia Transdanubia ( hu, Dunántúl; german: Transdanubien, hr, Prekodunavlje or ', sk, Zadunajsko :sk:Zadunajsko) is a traditional region of Hungary. It is also referred to as Hungarian Pannonia, or Pannonian Hungary. Administrative divisions Trad ...
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Geography of Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in East-Central Europe with a land area of 93,030 square km. It measures about 250 km from north to south and 524 km from east to west. It has 2,106 km of boundaries, shared with Austria to the west ...
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Pannonian island mountains The Pannonian island mountains ( sr, / , hr, Panonske otočne planine) is a term for isolated mountains scattered across the Pannonian Plain, chiefly its western and southern parts, in Hungary, Serbia and Croatia. In prehistoric times, these mo ...
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