Tokaj Mountains
The Tokaj Mountains (Hungarian Tokaji-hegység , Slovak Tokajské pohorie / Tokajské vrchy ) are today:
- the alternative designation preferred by Hungarian geologists (as opposed to geographers ) for the Zempléni-hegység (literally “Semplin Mountains”), which is located entirely on the territory of Hungary and geologically a continuation of the Slovakian Sovar Mountains ( Slanské vrchy ) .
- the name used exclusively in Slovakia for the Hungarian Zempléni-hegység (see also Semplin Mountains ).
Use of the term in the past
In the past (evidenced for example in 1904 during the time of Austria-Hungary ) mountains near the village Cejkov in Slovakia were also called Tokajské vrchy and one of them was called Tokaj.
Before 1945, the name Eperjes-Tokaji Érczhegység (literally "Eperies-Tokajer Erzgebirge") or Slovak Tokajsko-Prešovské hory / vrchy (literally "Tokaj-Eperieser Berge") was used in Hungary and (Czecho) Slovakia for the mountains between the City of Tokaj on the Tisza and the city of Prešov (i.e. for today's mountains Slánske vrchy and Zempléni-hegység ). The highest point of the mountains is the Nagy-Milic / Veľký Milič (895 m), which lies directly on the border .
The Zempleni Mountains are an important occurrence of obsidian that has been used increasingly since the Paleolithic and since the Neolithic .