Lower Morava Valley

Lower Morava Valley
Lower Morava Valley
	File:Soutok Moravy a Dyje - český břeh obr2.jpg Morava - Dyje confluence - riparian forest
Highest point
Peak	Žerotín (Zierotin)
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Dimensions
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Geography
Location	Dolnomoravský úval CZ IV1 A-2.png
Country	Moravia
State	Czech Republic
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Parent range	Carpathians
Geology
Orogeny	Alpide belt
Age of rock	Neogene
Type of rock	Gravel and Sand

The Lower Morava Valley Czech: Dolnomoravský úval /Jihomoravská pánev also, German: Nieder March Talsenke, Slovak: Dolnomoravský úval) is a geomorphological formation (special type of Valley) in the Moravia (Czech Republic). It is formed by the depression in the western Carpathian Mountains (Ždánice Forest, Kyjov Hills and Mikulov Hills) in the west and Bílé Karpaty and Chvojnice hills in the east. The drainage to the River Morava of the Danube basin runs finally to the Black Sea.

Including low watershed Dyje-Morava in Lanžhot.^[2]

The Lower Morava Valley is a nordest part of Vienna basin (Carpathians) and the corridor to Napajedla Gate, Upper Morava Valley, Moravian Gate and later in final goal North European Plain (Poland- Lower Silesia - Galicia) since ancient times. Here ran one arm of the most important trade routes from southern Europe to the Baltic Sea (e.g. the Amber Road - eastern branch) and also routes from Moravia to Upper Silesia and Lesser Poland. The Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway (one part) built in 1840-41 from Břeclav (Vienna) to Přerov also traversed the Lower Morava Valley.

The Morava and Dyje rivers, Myjava (river), Chvojnice, Trkmanka, Kyjovka as well among others, finishing here in theirs floodplains,^[3] and the towns include Břeclav, Hodonín, Uherské Hradiště, Valtice, Poštorná and Mikulčice.

See also