Považské podolie
Považské podolie (German about Waag valley landscape ) is a geomorphological unit, actually a basin of the outer Western Carpathians in Slovakia .
Clockwise it borders on Javorníky in the north, Súľovské vrchy and Strážovské vrchy in the east, the Inowetz in the southeast, the Danube hill country in the south, the hill country Myjavská pahorkatina in the south-west and the White Carpathians in the north-west. The valley basin occupies the middle reaches of the Waag from Žilina to Nové Mesto nad Váhom and by far copies the border with Moravia . In total, it is about 100 kilometers long, but only a few kilometers wide.
The basin is divided into three sub-units, which are clearly delimited from one another: in the north this is the Bytčianska kotlina , separated from the Ilavská kotlina by a hilly area near Považská Bystrica . The southernmost and lowest-lying part is the Trenčianska kotlina , which begins at Skalka nad Váhom and ends at the "Gate of Beckov " ( Beckovská brána in Slovak ) at Nové Mesto nad Váhom, where it merges into the Danube hill country. The highest point is the Ondrejová ( 509 m nm ) at Považská Bystrica, the lowest point is the outflow of the Waag ( 180 m nm ) at Nové Mesto nad Váhom.
Administratively today, most of it belongs to Trenčiansky kraj , with smaller parts in Žilinský kraj . In addition to Žilina and Nové Mesto nad Váhom on the edges, Bytča , Považská Bystrica, Ilava , Dubnica nad Váhom , Nová Dubnica , Nemšová and Trenčín are other towns in the basin.
literature
E. Mazúr, M. Lukniš: Geomorfologické členenie SSR and ČSSR. Časť Slovensko . Slovenská kartografia, Bratislava 1986.