Gate landscape
In geography, a gate landscape is understood to be a valley between two mountain landscapes that connect two larger, flatter landscapes. It is an extension of the term valley pass from small narrow valleys to larger areas.
The name gate comes from the Latin porta ' door , gate , portal ' and describes the importance of such landscape areas for traffic. Correspondingly, in choronymica (room names) there is also “gate” next to “gate”.
In principle (as with valley passes), a distinction can be made between two forms, those along the course of a river as a breakthrough valley (such as “valley pass” for valley narrow ) and pass landscapes (such as “valley pass” as valley watershed ).
Examples
To a landscape name:
- Bohemian Gate , Elbe breakthrough through the Bohemian Central Mountains
- Brucker Pforte in Lower Austria
- Burgundian gate to the Upper Rhine
- Djungarian gate
- Hainburger Pforte of the Danube in the east of Lower Austria
- Kösener gate
- Cilician Gate , connection between Cilicia and the highlands of Anatolia
- Moravian gate , watershed between the Oder and March
- Neustädter Pforte
- Postojna Gate between the Alps and the Dinarides
- Thebes Gate on the Austria-Slovakia border
- Thuringian Gate
- Porta Westfalica (Westphalian Gate)
- Vienna Gate of the Danube into the Vienna Basin
- Wiener Neustädter Pforte (Ödenburger Pforte) , connection Vienna Basin - Eisenstädter Basin
And:
- Iron Gate , breakthrough valley on the Danube between the Carpathian Mountains and the Banat Mountains (Serbia and Romania)
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