Pieniny

Pieniny Mountains
Pieniny Mountains
	View of Trzy Korony and Łysina Mountains
Highest point
Peak	Wysoka
Elevation	1,050 m (3,440 ft)
Coordinates	49°22′49″N 20°33′20″E / 49.38028°N 20.55556°E
Geography
	Location of the Pieniny Mountains, marked in red color and labeled as h3
Country	Carpathian range

The Pieniny (sometimes also the Pienins^[1]^[2] or the Pienin Mountains,^[1]^[3] Hungarian: Pieninek) is a mountain range in the south of Poland and the north of Slovakia. It is classified within the eastern section of the Western Beskids.

The Pieniny mountain range is divided into three parts – Pieniny Spiskie (

above sea level

.

Pieniny mountains formed at the bottom of the sea in several geological epochs. They were folded and raised in Upper

volcanic

origin.

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^ ^a ^b Szafer, Władysław. 2013. The Vegetation of Poland: International Series of Monographs in Pure and Applied Biology. Warsaw: Pergamon Press, pp. 156, 388.
^ Tkáč, Vladimír, et al. 1994. Slovakia: Country of Cultural Treasures. Opava: Edition Museon, p. 182.
^ Griffiths, Graham C. D. 1976. Studies on Boreal Agromyzidae (Diptera). XII. Phytomyza and Chromatomyia miners on Astereae (Compositae).Quaestiones Entomologicae 12: 239–275, p. 255.