Pohorje
{{Short description|Mountain range in Slovenia}}
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| photo=Mariborsko pohorje panorama.jpg
| photo_caption=Pohorje near Maribor
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| parent=Southern Limestone Alps
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| highest=Black Peak (Črni vrh)
| elevation_m=1543
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Pohorje ({{IPA|sl|ˈpóːxɔɾjɛ|pron}}), also known as the Pohorje MassifBogataj, Janez. 1999. Handicrafts of Slovenia: Encounters with Contemporary Slovene Craftsmen. Ljubljana: Rokus, p. 28.Watkins, Clem S. 2003. The Balkans. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, p. 125. or the Pohorje Mountains ({{langx|de|Bachergebirge}}, Bacherngebirge or often simply Bachern), is a mostly wooded, medium-high mountain range south of the Drava River in northeastern Slovenia. According to the traditional AVE classification it belongs to the Southern Limestone Alps. Geologically, it forms part of the Central Alps and features silicate metamorphic and igneous rock. Pohorje is sparsely populated with dispersed villages. There are also some ski resorts.
Geography
Pohorje is an Alpine mountain ridge with domed summits south of the Drava. It roughly lies in the triangle formed by the towns of Maribor (to the east), Dravograd (to the west) and Slovenske Konjice (to the south). To the northwest, it is bounded by the Mislinja River, to the south by the Vitanje Lowlands ({{lang|sl|Vitanjsko podolje}}), to the east it descends to the Drava Plain ({{lang|sl|Dravsko polje}}) and to the southeast it descends to the Pohorje Foothills ({{lang|sl|Podpohorske gorice}}). It measures about {{convert|50|abbr=on|km}} from east to west and {{convert|30|abbr=on|km}} from north to south and covers an area of ca. {{convert|840|abbr=on|km2}}. Its highest elevations are Black Peak ({{langx|sl|Črni Vrh}}, {{langx|de|Schwarzkogel}}) {{convert|1543|abbr=on|m}}, the only slightly lower Big Kopa Peak ({{lang|sl|Velika Kopa}}), and Lake Peak ({{lang|sl|Jezerski vrh}}), which rises to {{convert|1537|abbr=on|m}}. Forests cover over 70% of its surface.{{cite book |url=http://www.southeast-europe.net/document.cmt?id=265 |title=NATREG: Final Publication |publisher=REC Ljubljana |editor-first=Nina |editor-last=Uratarič |date=June 2011 |access-date=28 March 2015 |pages=36–40}}
Geology
Pohorje is a young mountain massif and is the southeasternmost part of the Central Alps.{{cite journal |doi=10.3986/AGS48201 |title=Geomorphology of the Pohorje Mountains |first=Ivan |last=Gams |journal=Acta Geographica Slovenica |volume=48 |issue=2 |pages=185–254 |year=2008 |publisher=Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts|doi-access=free }} It is the only mountain chain in Slovenia made of silicate rock. Its peripheral parts consist of Paleozoic metamorphic rock, and its central parts of igneous rock, particularly granodiorite (known also as the Pohorje tonalite) and dacite.{{cite web |url=http://maribor-pohorje.si/rocks-of-pohorje.aspx |title=Rocks of Pohorje |publisher=Tourist Information Centre Pohorje |access-date=28 March 2015}}
Near the village of Cezlak lies probably the only known deposit of cizlakite (quartz monzogabbro; a green plutonic rock). The southern parts of Pohorje are known for white marble, which was quarried in Roman times.
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Pohorje ski resorts
The following ski resorts stand at Pohorje:
Radio towers
Near hilltops within the mountain range are located a TV and radio transmitter Pohorje and a military air-traffic control radar station RP-2.
References
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Bibliography
=Meteorology=
- {{cite journal |date=2005-12-15 |first=Damir |last=Počakal |title=Influence of Orography on Hail Characteristics in the Continental Part of Croatia |pages=641–642 |url=https://hrcak.srce.hr/64903 |journal=Hrvatski meteorološki časopis |issn=1330-0083 |issue=40}}
External links
- {{Commons category-inline|Pohorje}}
- [http://maribor-pohorje.si/pohorje-mountain.aspx Pohorje]. Tourist Information Centre Maribor.
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Category:Mountain ranges of the Alps
Category:Mountain ranges of Slovenia