Ćićarija
| Ćićarija / Čičarija | ||
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| Highest peak | Veliki Planik ( 1272 m ) | |
| location | Croatia , Slovenia | |
| part of | Karst , Dinarides | |
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| Coordinates | 45 ° 26 ' N , 14 ° 12' E | |
The Ćićarija ( Croatian ), written in Slovene Čičarija ( Italian Cicceria , German outdated Tschitschenboden , also Tschitscherei , Tschitschenkarst , etc.) is a 45 km long and 10 to 15 km wide part of the karst area in the Dinaric Mountains in northern Istria , between Koper and Kastav .
Location and landscape
The Ćićarija lies on the border between Croatia and Slovenia .
The karst area is mostly at 700 to 800 m above sea level. The highest elevation in the Ćićarija is the Veliki Planik ( 1272 m ) in the south-east of the area (although this is no longer counted as part of it) . The highest peak in the Slovenian part is located on the border of Croatia Glavičorka ( 1082 m ), and more in Slovenia field of Slavník ( 1,028 m ) associated with its communications circuit as natural geographical small region Slavniško pogorje be referred to (Slavník Highlands). The foreland there is the Podgorski kras plateau .
In the northeast, the Ćićarija is bounded by the Podgrajsko podolje (Matarsko podolje) , there are the mountains of the Brkini . In the southeast the area merges into the Goriski kotlina . To the south, the Učka mountain range (highest elevation 1401 m ) joins the Kvarner Bay , with which the Ćićarija forms a morphological unit. The area bounded by Dolenja Vas and Buzet to the southwest . To the northwest, the edge of the Podgorski kras forms the transition to Koprsko primorje (Koper coastal area).
The Ćićarija and the Učka represent the “White Istria” (bela Istra) , which is so named (Northern Istrian Karst) because of the karst , light limestone cliffs that are largely devoid of vegetation .
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Northwest flank on Slavnik to Podgorski kras
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etymology
The name is derived from the former and still remnants of the Istrian population of the area, called in Croatian Ćići or Ćiribirci (Tschiribiren).
literature
- Ž. Poljak: Hrvatske planine, planinarsko-turistički vodič s atlasom. Zagreb 1982, p. OA
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Brockhaus' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon , fifth edition, volume 2. Leipzig 1911, p. 872.
- ↑ TR Vukanović: Les Valaques, habitants autochtones des pays Balkaniques. In: L'Ethnographie 56 (1962), pp. 11-48; here p. 18, quoted from Achille G. Lazarou: L'Aroumain et ses rapports avec le Grec , Institute for Balkan Studies, Thessaloniki 1986, p. 81, fn. 78.