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Polonynian Beskids or Polonyne Beskids (Ukrainian: Полонинські Бескиди; Polish: Beskidy Połonińskie) is a geological group of mountain ranges of the Eastern Beskids, within the Outer Eastern Carpathians. It is one of two parallel mountain ridges of the Eastern Beskids, situated in western parts of modern Ukraine. They are stretching parallel to the Wooded Beskids on the northeast, and Vihorlat-Gutin Area to the southwest.

The name of this mountain range is derived from Slavic term polonyna, designating a particular type of montane meadows, characteristic for those parts of the Carpathians. Thus, the very term polonyne or polonynian Beskids translates as Meadowed Beskids. In Polish and Ukrainian terminology, this range is most commonly called the "Polonynian Beskids" (Ukrainian: Полонинські Бескиди; Polish: Beskidy Połonińskie), while in Slovakia it is also defined in a much wider sense, under the local term Poloniny (Slovak: Poloniny). The territorial scope of all those terms varies in accordance to different classifications and traditions.

Subdivisions

Polonynian Beskids include:

• Smooth Polonyna (PL: Połonina Równa; UK: Полонина Рівна) → c6
• Polonyna Borzhava (PL: Połonina Borżawska; UK: Полонина Боржава) → c7
• Polonyna Kuk (PL: Połonina Kuk; UK: Полонина Кук) → c8
• Red Polonyna (PL: Połonina Czerwona; UK: Полонина Красна)→ c9
• Svydovets (PL: Świdowiec; UK: Свидівець) → c10
• Chornohora (PL: Czarnohora; UK: Чорногора) → c11
• Hrynyavy Mountains (PL: Połoniny Hryniawskie; UK: Гриняви) → c12

See also

• Divisions of the Carpathians
• Wooded Carpathians
• Ukrainian Carpathians
• Polonyna (montane meadow)

References

1. Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Polonynian Beskyd
2. Tasenkevich 2009, p. 203-208.

Sources

• Földvary, Gábor Z. (1988). Geology of the Carpathian Region. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company. ISBN 9789813103825.
• Tasenkevich, Lydia (2009). "Polonynas: Highlands Pastures in the Ukrainian Carpathians". Grasslands in Europe: Of High Nature Value. Zeist: KNNV Publishing. pp. 203–208. ISBN 9789004278103.

External links

• Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Beskyds
• Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Inner Carpathian Valley
• Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Volcanic Ukrainian Carpathians
• Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Borzhava
• Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Krasna
• Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Svydivets
• Encyclopedia of Ukraine: Chornohora
• Carpathian Mountains: Division (map)

v t e Divisions, Groups, and Ranges of the Carpathian Mountains
Western Carpathians	Inner Western Slovak Ore Mountains Fatra-Tatra Area Slovak Central Mountains Lučenec-Košice Depression Mátra-Slanec Area and North Hungarian Mountains Outer Western South-Moravian Carpathians Central Moravian Carpathians Slovak-Moravian Carpathians Western Beskidian Piedmont Western Beskids (Eastern section, Central section) Podhale-Magura Area
Eastern Carpathians	Inner Eastern Vihorlat-Gutin Area Bistrița Mountains Căliman-Harghita Mountains Giurgeu-Brașov Depression Outer Eastern Central Beskidian Piedmont Central Beskids Eastern Beskids (Polonynian Beskids) Moldavian-Muntenian Carpathians
Southern Carpathians	Bucegi Mountains Făgăraș Mountains group Parâng Mountains group Retezat-Godeanu Mountains group
Western Romanian Carpathians	Apuseni Mountains Poiana Ruscă Mountains Banat Mountains
Serbian Carpathians	Homolje Mountains Kučaj Mountains Devica Rtanj Deli Jovan
Adjacent regions	Transylvanian Plateau (Transylvanian Plain) Outer Subcarpathian depressions
Grouping by country	Hungarian Carpathians Polish Carpathians Romanian Carpathians Serbian Carpathians Slovak Carpathians Ukrainian Carpathians

• Mountain ranges of the Eastern Carpathians
• Mountain ranges of Ukraine