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Pannonian Basin

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The Pannonian Basin (marked III.), enclosed by the Carpathians and the Transylvanian Plateau (IV.) to the east and north. Also shown: the Romanian Lowlands (II.) and the Subcarpathian depressions (I.) beyond the Carpathians (also known as Transcarpathia ) The highlighted borders of the province of Pannonia within the Roman Empire Topography of the basin and surrounding mountains Hydrography of the Pannonian basin before the river and lake regulations in the 19th century. A farm on the Hortobágy National Park The Danube-Tisa-Danube Canal near the village of Rumenka, close to Novi Sad The Pannonian Basin , or Carpathian Basin , [1] [2] [3] [4] is a large basin in Central Europe. The geomorphological term Pannonian Plain is more widely used for roughly the same region though with a somewhat different sense, with only the lowlands, the plain that remained when the Pliocene Epoch Pannonian Sea dried out. It is a geomorphological subsystem of the Alps-Himala...