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Spring patchworkby ~jup3nep

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The Pannonian Plain is a large plain in Central Europe that remained when the Pliocene Pannonian Sea dried out. It is a geomorphological subsystem of the Alps-Himalaya system.

The river Danube divides the plain roughly in half.

The plain is divided among Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.

The plain is roughly bounded by the Carpathian mountains, the Alps, the Dinaric Alps and the Balkan mountains.
Although rain is not plentiful, it usually falls when necessary and the plain is a major agricultural area; it is sometimes said that these fields of rich loamy loess soil could feed the whole of Europe. For its early settlers, the plain offered few sources of metals or stone. Thus when archaeologists come upon objects of obsidian or chert, copper or gold, they have almost unparalleled opportunities to interpret ancient pathways of trade.

The precursor to the present plain was a shallow sea that reached its greatest extent during the Pliocene, when three to four kilometres of sediments were deposited.

The plain was named after the Pannonians, a northern Illyrian tribe. Various different peoples inhabited the plain during its history. In the first century BC, the eastern parts of the plain belonged to the Dacian state, and in the first century AD its western parts were subsumed into the Roman Empire. The Roman province named Pannonia was established in the area, and the city of Sirmium, today Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia, became one of the four capital cities of the Roman Empire in the 3rd century.

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~go-go-ama Apr 1, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

EPIC!

~HajaoqueHouver Dec 14, 2009

It's been featured here [link]

=TheLodger Nov 30, 2009 Hobbyist General Artist

Very nice. Looks like rivers of gold running down the hillside.
Thanks for the info regarding the site, it enriches the image

~Loriele Nov 29, 2009 Student General Artist

lovely

~gurugu-mawaru Nov 29, 2009

_{This amazing work as been featured here

Please don't forget to fave the news article so you can get more exposure}

~Missy-C Jun 29, 2009

Wow so nice and pretty

*marthig Jun 2, 2009

This is a marvelous photo just by itself, but your description make it so much valuable -for me at least. It's beautiful to also learn about a bit of history of the place.