Pannonian plain
The Pannonian plain is a large plain in central/south-eastern Europe that remained when the prehistoric Pannonian sea dried out. The river Danube divides the plain roughly in half. The plain is roughly bounded by the Carpathian mountains, the Alps, the Dinaric Alps and the Balkan mountains.Although the rain is not plentiful, it usually falls when necessary and the plain is a major agricultural area; it is sometimes said that these fields could feed the whole of Europe.
The plain is divided among Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria, Romania and Serbia and Montenegro. The peripannonian lands, areas around this plain but not elevated like the surrounding mountains, also spread into Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Large areas of the plain that do not necessarily correspond to national borders include:
- Baranya (Croatia, Hungary)
- Bačka, Bacska (Hungary, Serbia and Montenegro)
- Banat (Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro)
- Mačva (Serbia and Montenegro)
- Posavina (Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro)
- Semberija (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
- Transylvania (Romania)
- Vojvodina (Serbia and Montenegro)
- several more inside Hungary
- within Croatia:
- within Serbia: