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{{Geobox Mountain Range| name=Dinaric Alps |other_name=Dinarides| image=Orjen.jpg| image_caption=Orjen at the Bay of Kotor is the heaviest karstified range of the DinaridesThe
Dinaric Alps or
Dinarides (Croatian language and Bosnian language:
Dinarsko gorje or
Dinaridi, Serbian language:
Динарске планине or
Динариди; Slovenian language:
Dinarsko gorstvo; Italian language:
Alpi Dinariche) form a mountain chain in southern Europe, spanning areas of Slovenia, Croatia,
Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Serbia,
Montenegro and
Albania.
They extend for along the coast of the Adriatic Sea (northwest-southeast), from the
Julian Alps in the northwest down to the
Sar mountain-
Mount Korab massive, where the mountain direction changes to north-south. The highest mountain of the Dinaric Alps is the Prokletije, located on the border of eastern Montenegro and northern Albania, with the peak called "Lake Crest" at .
The Dinaric Alps comprise the most rugged and extensively mountainous area of Europe outside of the Caucasus Mountains,
Alps and
Scandinavian Mountains. They are formed largely of secondary and tertiary sedimentary rocks of
dolomite, limestone,
sand, and conglomerates formed by seas and lakes that had once covered the area. During the Alpine earth movements that occurred 50-100 million years ago, immense lateral pressures folded and overthrust the rocks in a great arc around the old rigid block of the north-east.
The Dinaric Alps were thrown up in more or less parallel ranges, stretching like necklaces from the Julian Alps up to the areas of northern Albania and Kosovo where the mountainous terrain subsides to make way for the waters of
Drin River and the fields of
Kosovo. The Sar mountain and
Mount Korab mountains then rise and the mountainous terrain continues southwards to the Pindus of
Greece and the mountains of the Peloponnese and Crete,
Rhodes to the Taurus Mountains of southern
Turkey.
Geology
The Mesozoic Era limestone forms a very distinctive region of the Balkans, notable for features such as the
Karst. The Quarternary Ice Ages had relatively little direct geologic influence on the Balkans. No permanent
ice caps existed, and there is little evidence of extensive
glaciation. Only the highest summits of
Mount Durmitor,
Mount Orjen, and Prenj have glacial valleys and
moraines as low as 600 metres. However, in the
Prokletije, a range on the northern Albanian border that runs east to west (thus breaking the general geographic trend of the Dinaric system), there is evidence of major glaciation.
One geological feature of great importance to the present-day landscape of the Dinarides must be considered in more detail: that of the limestone mountains, often with their attendant faulting. They are hard and slow to erode, and often persist as steep jagged escarpments, through which steep-sided gorges and
canyons are cleft by the rivers draining the higher slopes.
The most extensive example of limestone mountains in Europe are those of the
Karst of the Dinaric Alps. Here, all the characteristic features are encountered again and again as one travels through this wild and underpopulated country. Limestone is a very porous rock, yet very hard and resistant to
Erosion. Water is the most important corrosive force (Corrosion), dissolving the limestone by chemical action. As it percolates down through cracks in the limestone it opens up fissures and channels, often of considerable depth, so that whole systems of underground drainage develop. During subsequent millennia these work deeper, leaving in their wake enormous waterless
caverns, sinkholes, and
grottoes and forming underground labyrinths of channels and shafts. The roofs of some of these caverns may eventually fall in, to produce great perpendicular-sided gorges, exposing the water to the surface once more. The magnificent gorges of many of the Dinaric rivers, for example those of the
Vrbas River, Neretva, Tara River (Montenegro), and
Lim, are justly famous. The partially submerged western Dinaric Alps form the numerous islands and harbors along the Croatian coast.
Only along the Dinaric gorges is communication possible across the Karst, and roads and railways tunnel through precipitous cliffs and traverse narrow ledges above roaring torrents. At the same time, the purity of these rocks is such that the rivers are crystal clear, and there is little soil-making residue. Rock faces are often bare of vegetation and glaring white, but what little soil there is may collect in the hollows and support lush vegetation, or yield narrow strips of cultivation.
Human activity in the Dinarides
Ruins of fortresses dot the mountainous landscape, evidence of centuries of war and the refuge the Dinaric Alps have provided to various military forces. The Dinarides provided shelter to the
Illyrians resisting
ancient Rome conquest of the Balkans, which began with the conquest of the eastern Adriatic Sea coast in the third century BC. Rome conquered the whole of
Illyria in 168 BC. These mountains sheltered Illyrian resistance forces for many years until the area’s complete subjugation by 14 AD.
The area remains underpopulated, and forestry and mining remain the chief economic activities in the Dinaric Alps. The people of the Dinaric Alps are on record as being the tallest in Europe, with a male average height of 185.6 cm (6 ft., 1 in. for recent 17 year olds).
Mountains in the Dinaric Alps
Some of the mountains within the Dinarides are:
{{Geobox Mountain Range| name=Dinaric Alps |other_name=Dinarides| image=Orjen.jpg| image_caption=
Orjen at the
Bay of Kotor is the heaviest karstified range of the DinaridesThe
Dinaric Alps or
Dinarides (Croatian language and
Bosnian language:
Dinarsko gorje or
Dinaridi,
Serbian language:
Динарске планине or
Динариди;
Slovenian language:
Dinarsko gorstvo;
Italian language:
Alpi Dinariche) form a mountain chain in southern
Europe, spanning areas of Slovenia, Croatia,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and
Albania.
They extend for along the coast of the
Adriatic Sea (northwest-southeast), from the Julian Alps in the northwest down to the Sar mountain-Mount Korab massive, where the mountain direction changes to north-south. The highest mountain of the Dinaric Alps is the Prokletije, located on the border of eastern Montenegro and northern Albania, with the peak called "Lake Crest" at .
The Dinaric Alps comprise the most rugged and extensively mountainous area of Europe outside of the Caucasus Mountains, Alps and Scandinavian Mountains. They are formed largely of secondary and tertiary
sedimentary rocks of
dolomite, limestone,
sand, and conglomerates formed by seas and lakes that had once covered the area. During the Alpine earth movements that occurred 50-100 million years ago, immense lateral pressures folded and overthrust the rocks in a great arc around the old rigid block of the north-east.
The Dinaric Alps were thrown up in more or less parallel ranges, stretching like necklaces from the Julian Alps up to the areas of northern Albania and Kosovo where the mountainous terrain subsides to make way for the waters of
Drin River and the fields of Kosovo. The
Sar mountain and
Mount Korab mountains then rise and the mountainous terrain continues southwards to the Pindus of
Greece and the mountains of the Peloponnese and
Crete,
Rhodes to the
Taurus Mountains of southern
Turkey.
Geology
The Mesozoic Era limestone forms a very distinctive region of the
Balkans, notable for features such as the Karst. The Quarternary Ice Ages had relatively little direct geologic influence on the Balkans. No permanent ice caps existed, and there is little evidence of extensive
glaciation. Only the highest summits of Mount Durmitor, Mount Orjen, and
Prenj have glacial valleys and
moraines as low as 600 metres. However, in the
Prokletije, a range on the northern Albanian border that runs east to west (thus breaking the general geographic trend of the Dinaric system), there is evidence of major glaciation.
One geological feature of great importance to the present-day landscape of the Dinarides must be considered in more detail: that of the limestone mountains, often with their attendant faulting. They are hard and slow to erode, and often persist as steep jagged escarpments, through which steep-sided
gorges and
canyons are cleft by the rivers draining the higher slopes.
The most extensive example of limestone mountains in Europe are those of the
Karst of the Dinaric Alps. Here, all the characteristic features are encountered again and again as one travels through this wild and underpopulated country. Limestone is a very porous rock, yet very hard and resistant to
Erosion. Water is the most important corrosive force (
Corrosion), dissolving the limestone by chemical action. As it percolates down through cracks in the limestone it opens up fissures and channels, often of considerable depth, so that whole systems of underground drainage develop. During subsequent millennia these work deeper, leaving in their wake enormous waterless
caverns,
sinkholes, and grottoes and forming underground labyrinths of channels and shafts. The roofs of some of these caverns may eventually fall in, to produce great perpendicular-sided gorges, exposing the water to the surface once more. The magnificent gorges of many of the Dinaric rivers, for example those of the Vrbas River, Neretva, Tara River (Montenegro), and Lim, are justly famous. The partially submerged western Dinaric Alps form the numerous islands and harbors along the Croatian coast.
Only along the Dinaric gorges is communication possible across the Karst, and roads and railways tunnel through precipitous cliffs and traverse narrow ledges above roaring torrents. At the same time, the purity of these rocks is such that the rivers are crystal clear, and there is little soil-making residue. Rock faces are often bare of vegetation and glaring white, but what little soil there is may collect in the hollows and support lush vegetation, or yield narrow strips of cultivation.
Human activity in the Dinarides
Ruins of fortresses dot the mountainous landscape, evidence of centuries of war and the refuge the Dinaric Alps have provided to various military forces. The Dinarides provided shelter to the Illyrians resisting
ancient Rome conquest of the Balkans, which began with the conquest of the eastern
Adriatic Sea coast in the third century BC. Rome conquered the whole of Illyria in 168 BC. These mountains sheltered Illyrian resistance forces for many years until the area’s complete subjugation by 14 AD.
The area remains underpopulated, and forestry and mining remain the chief economic activities in the Dinaric Alps. The people of the Dinaric Alps are on record as being the tallest in Europe, with a male average height of 185.6 cm (6 ft., 1 in. for recent 17 year olds).
Mountains in the Dinaric Alps
Some of the mountains within the Dinarides are:
Dinaric Alps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Dinaric Alps or Dinarides (Croatian and Bosnian: Dinarsko gorje or Dinaridi, Albanian: Alpet Dinaride, Serbian: Динарске планине or Динариди/ Dinarske ...
Dinaric Alps
Extension of the European Alps that runs parallel to the eastern Adriatic coast, stretching from Slovenia along the frontier between Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina into Montenegro ...
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Dinaric Alps. Extension of the European Alps that runs parallel to the eastern Adriatic coast, stretching from Slovenia along the frontier between Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina ...
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Dinaric Alps (dīnâr`ĭk), Ital. Alpi Dinariche, Serbo-Croatian Dinara Planina, mountain system, extending c.400 mi (640 km) along the east coast of the Adriatic Sea from the ...
Dinaric Alps - MSN Encarta
Dinaric Alps, mountain group, south-eastern Europe, part of the Eastern Alpine system. Extending from the Julian Alps, in north-eastern Italy and...
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Place of the Dinaric Alps on the Euratlas Physical Atlas of Europe. Geographic maps showing the orography of Europe, that is the relief, the main mountains and mountain ranges of ...
Dinaric Alps - definition of Dinaric Alps by the Free Online ...
Di·nar·ic Alps (d-n r k) A range of the northwest Balkan Peninsula extending about 644 km (400 mi) along the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea in Croatia and Bosnia and ...
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range of the E Alps, extending from Croatia through Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, & N Albania: highest peak, c. 8,800 ft (2,682 m)
Dinaric Alps. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07
Dinaric Alps. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07 ... d nâr´ k) (KEY) , Ital. Alpi Dinariche, Serbo-Croatian Dinara Planina, mountain system, extending c.400 mi ...
