Buków Mountains
| Buków Mountains | ||
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 Pielnica valley |
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| Highest peak | Żurawinka ( 667 m npm ) | |
| location | Poland | |
| part of | Central Beskid promontory | |
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 28 ' N , 22 ° 7' E | |
The Buków Mountains (Polish: Pogórze Bukowskie ) consists of foothills of the Central Beskid Foothills in southern Poland in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship . Its highest peak is the Żurawinka with 667 m.
geography
The mountains border on the Jasło Mountains in the west , in the east it extends to the Sanok Basin and the Saana Mountains , in the south on the Bukowica ridge in the Lower Beskids and in the north on the Jasło-Krosno Basin . It is located between the San rivers in the east and Jasiołka in the west. The Osława and Wisłok rivers flow through the mountains .
structure
The mountains are divided into several ridges.
history
The area was already inhabited by the Przeworsk people in ancient times , and two ancient tombs are located in the mountains.
After 1340, Casimir the Great settled the forest German . In addition to the Polonized Forest Germans , Dolinianie , Lemken and Wallachians also lived in the mountains .
At this time, numerous castles and fortresses were built in the mountains that protected the border between Poland and Hungary, such as Sobień Castle , Lesko Castle , Sanok Royal Castle and Nowotaniec Castle .
The First Hungarian-Galician Railway connected the cities with Hungary through the mountains .
The Buków Mountains, along with the surrounding areas, are the oldest oil-producing areas in the world.
Cities
On the eastern edge of the mountains lies Sanok and on the northern edge Krosno .
tourism
Numerous marked hiking and cycling trails run through the mountains.
War cemeteries
At the beginning of the First World War, bitter fighting raged in the mountains between the Russian army, which had occupied the area since 1914, and the Austro-Hungarian army, which wanted to recapture Galicia. In May 1915, the Bosnian associations attacked the Don Cossacks on the Wisłok River . The military cemetery for this two-day battle is in Bukowsko .
In 1944, during the Second World War, the mountains were the scene of the Soviet Operation Dukla .
natural reserve
The mountains are located in the Jasło Landscape Protection Park . There are numerous nature reserves in the park:
- Brzoza Czarna w Reczpolu Nature Reserve
- Wadernik nature reserve
- Modrzyna nature reserve
- Źródliska Jasiołki Nature Reserve
- Przełom Jasiołki Nature Reserve
- Kamień nad Jaśliskami Nature Reserve
proof
- Jerzy Kondracki: Geografia regionalna Polski . Warszawa: Wyd. Naukowe PWN, 1998. ISBN 83-01-12479-2
