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- Instance of
- highland
- Part of
- Hercynian Forest
- Country
- Austria
- Highest point
- Sněžka
- Image
- Słonecznik Karkonosze.jpg
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- Commons category
- Bohemian Massif
- topic's main category
- Category:Bohemian Massif
- geomorphological unit
- Hercynian Forest
- time period
- Devonian
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Encyclopedic overview
Map of Variscan massifs and structures in Central Europe. The Bohemian Massif is situated to the right. Gentle hills in the Bavarian Forest, a typical landscape The Bohemian Massif (Czech: Česká vysočina or Český masiv; German: Böhmische Masse or Böhmisches Massiv) is a geomorphological province in Central Europe. It is a large massif stretching over most of the Czech Republic, eastern Germany, southern Poland and northern Austria.
The massif encompasses a number of mittelgebirges and consists of crystalline rocks, which are older than the Permian (more than 300 million years old) and therefore deformed during the Variscan Orogeny.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bohemian Massif” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.