The Slovene Prealps or the Slovenian Prealps ( sl, Slovenske Predalpe, , ) are a group of mountain ranges in the eastern part of the

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. They are located in

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and, for a small part of their northernmost area, in

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Geography

SOIUSA classification

According to

SOIUSA Alps by SOIUSA. SOIUSA (an acronym for - English: ''International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps-ISMSA'') is a proposal for a new classification system of the Alps from the geographic and toponomastic point of view. It was designe ...

(''International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps'') the Slovene Prealps are an Alpine section, classified in the following way: * main part =

Eastern Alps Eastern Alps is the name given to the eastern half of the Alps, usually defined as the area east of a line from Lake Constance and the Alpine Rhine valley up to the Splügen Pass at the Alpine divide and down the Liro River to Lake Como in t ...

* major sector =

Southern Limestone Alps The Southern Limestone Alps ( it, Alpi Sud-orientali, german: Südliche Kalkalpen), also called the Southern Calcareous Alps, are the ranges of the Eastern Alps south of the Central Eastern Alps mainly located in northern Italy and the adjacen ...

* section = Slovene Prealps *

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= II/C-36

Subdivision

The Slovene Prealps are divided into three non-contiguous subsections: * Western Slovene Prealps ( Sl: ''Zahodne Slovenske Predalpe'') -

SOIUSA code SOIUSA code is the code used in the International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps (ISMSA or SOIUSA), a proposal by Italian Alpinist, Sergio Marazzi, to re- categorize the mountains and mountain ranges of the Alps. The proposal has b ...

:II/C-36.I * Eastern Slovene Prealps ( Sl: ''Vzhodne Slovenske Predalpe'') -

:II/C-36.II * Northeastern Slovene Prealps ( Sl: ''Severovzhodne Slovenske Predalpe'') -

:II/C-36.III Two of these subsections include just one Alpine supergroup, and the third one is further subdivided in two supergroups:Tone Wraber, ''Goropisni atlas Alp''; on-line article about SOIUSA
www.gore-ljudje.net
(access date: 2012-03-29) * Western Slovene Prealps: ** supergroup ''Škofjeloško-Cerkljansko-Polhograjsko-Rovtarsko hribovje'' -

:II/C-36.I-A * Eastern Slovene Prealps: ** supergroup '' Posavsko hribovje'' -

:II/C-36.II-A * Northeastern Slovene Prealps: ** supergroup ''Strojno s Pohorjem hribovje'' -

:II/C-36.III-A ** supergroup ''Vitanjsko-Konjiško hribovje'' -

:II/C-36.III-B

Summits

The chief summits of the Slovene Prealps are:

References

{{SOIUSA sections of the Alps Mountain ranges of Slovenia Mountain ranges of Austria Mountain ranges of the Alps