Svilaja
| Svilaja | ||
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| Highest peak | Bat ( 1508 m. I. J. ) | |
| location | Zagora , Central Dalmatia | |
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| Coordinates | 43 ° 52 ' N , 16 ° 9' E | |
The Svilaja - Mountain is located in Croatia . It is a mountain range stretching from northwest to southeast in the Zagora in the Split-Dalmatia County . The mountains are characterized by a sometimes more, sometimes less crumpled plateau, which is limited to the south-east by a very striking steep rise above the town of Sinj with a height of 1508 meters, on the other hand gently sloping towards the north and there at the town of Knin imperceptibly into the Dinaric Mountains transforms.
The length of the Svilaja Mountains is about 30 km, the average width about 10 km. The Svilaja Mountains run parallel to the Dinaric Mountains. The middle part of the Svilaja Mountains, which extends from Petrovo Polje ( South Slavic for Peter's arable field, since the Polje is mostly used for agriculture ) into the mountain region, is located near Baljci .
List of elevations over 1000 meters
- Bat (1508 m), highest point in the town of Sinj
- Jančak (1483 m)
- Day care center (1413 m)
- Turjača (1340 m)
- Lisina (1301 m)
- Veliki Kozjak (1207 m)
- Orlove Stine (1139 m)
towns and places
Bigger and significant cities and places around the Svilaja Mountains:
- Sinj 25,373 inhabitants: Lake Peruća , Cetina
- Knin 15,190 inhabitants: Fortress (tvrđava), Krka
- Vrlika 2,705 inhabitants:
- Kijevo 533 inhabitants:
- Baljci 470 inhabitants: In 1991
Culture
The Svilaja Mountains also offer a lot in terms of culture, there are some castle ruins and churches that are worth seeing.
Particularly noteworthy are the influences of the Illyrians , which had an effect on the naming in the mountain region; hence some smaller elevations are called Gradina, Polača, Lemes, etc.
swell
- Triassic beds in the basement of the Adriatic-Dinaric carbonate platform of Mt.Svilaja
- GEOGRAPHICAL AND METEOROLOGICAL DATA (PDF; 139 kB)