Silesian promontory
| Pogórze Śląskie | ||
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 Pogórze Śląskie in Goleszów |
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| Highest peak | Tuł ( 612 m npm ) | |
| location | Poland | |
| part of | West Beskids | |
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 50 ′ N , 19 ° 2 ′ E | |
| surface | 545 km² | |
The Silesian Foothills ( Pogórze Śląskie in Polish ) consists of foothills of the West Beskids in southern Poland in the Silesian Voivodeship and Lesser Poland Voivodeship . Its highest peak is the Tuł with 612 m.
geography
According to Jerzy Kondracki , the promontory lies between the Olsa rivers in the west and Wieprzówka in the east. It is a strip of land north of the Silesian and Little Beskids , about 5–15 kilometers wide. To the north it goes over into the Ostrava and Auschwitz basins .
The area between Olsa and Biała (in the historical Silesia region) is also called Pogórze Cieszyńskie ( Cieszyn Foothills ).
The towns in the foothills are Cieszyn , Skoczów , Ustroń , Bielsko-Biała , Kęty and Andrychów .
Individual evidence
- ↑ podział i granice Beskidów wg. prof. Jerzego Kondrackiego
- ↑ GeoŚląsk :: Macroregion Pogórze Zachodniobeskidzkie
- ^ Idzi Panic (editor): Śląsk Cieszyński w czasach prehistorycznych . Starostwo Powiatowe w Cieszynie, Cieszyn 2012, ISBN 978-83-926929-6-6 , p. 40-42 (Polish).
proof
- Jerzy Kondracki: Geografia regionalna Polski. Warszawa: Wyd. Naukowe PWN, 1998. ISBN 83-01-12479-2 .
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