Alpine foothills

Voralpenland referred to in the Regional Geography, the areas around the - cultural, climatic or economic - alpine embossed core zone of the Alps, so far as they do not belong to the upstream Limestone Alps, the northern and western uplands or to the plains of Pannonia and the Po.

In the most common application, the term non-specific on the northern foothills of the Alps, and in particular the areas between the wide arc from Lake Geneva to Lake Constance and the Danube to Linz.

On a general basis, the terms foothills of the Alps and the Alpine foothills are approximately the same. The term " foothills of the Alps " is only cautiously used in the literature because it does not settle to some more specific terms:

  • Generally the Alps, outdated Lower Alps as the foothills of the Alps, subalpine medium mountain -like hills on the edge of the Alps, and the intervening valleys, against the flat to gently rolling, traversed part of old moraines foothills of the Alps that runs to the Danube the Swiss Alps region
  • The northern foothills of the Alps as part of the Northern Alps, so the Limestone Alps as opposing subdivision to the Limestone in the Northern Limestone Alps, together with the flysch zone, and some other rock zones
  • The Bavarian Alps as a mountain range, as compared to general scoring on the Northern Alps, the Kalkhochalpen upstream mountain areas in Schwaben, Bavaria and Salzburg
  • The Salzburgian Alpine foothills, is expected to be the Salzkammergut mountains, opposite the pre-alpine area of ​​the northern Flachgau that involves the Salzburgische Lakeland
  • The Upper Austrian Alpine foothills comprising the mountain group of the Upper Austrian Alps, the regions between Limestone and house jerk, which are only partially within the northern Salzkammergut region, as well as some tiefeingreifende Talöffnungen
  • The Lower Austrian Alps from the Eisenwurzen to the Vienna Woods
  • The south-eastern edge of the Alps region, especially eastern edge of the mountains, Lavanttaler Alps, Oststeirisches hills, Pohorje ( Pohorje, geologically part of the Central Alps )
  • The southern or Italian Alps (Italian: Prealpi ) as southern mountain ranges of the Southern Alps and the Italian Western Alps
  • The French Alps ( fr. préalpes ), which consisting extend from the Savoy Alps, the Dauphiné Alps and the Provencal Alps, the Rhone Valley to the Mediterranean.
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Eastern Alps Bavarian Prealps Lavanttal Alps
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