Alpine foothills
The Alpine foothills, or Prealps (German: Voralpen; French: Préalpes; Italian: Prealpi; Slovene: Predalpe) can refer generally to any foothills at the base of the European Alps. They are the transition zone between the High Alps to the Swiss Plateau and the Bavarian Alpine Foreland in the north, as well as to the Pannonian Basin (Alpokalja) in the east, the Padan Plain in the south and the Rhone Valley in the west.
Kolomansberg, Salzkammergut Mountains, Austria
Classification
The Alpine foothills comprise:
- The French Prealps
- The Swiss Prealps
- The Northern Prealps, part of the Northern Limestone Alps:
- Bavarian Prealps in southeastern Germany
- Salzburg Prealps, part of the Salzkammergut Mountains in Austria
- Upper Austrian Prealps
- Lower Austrian Prealps, leading to the Vienna Woods
- The Southeastern Prealps, borderline of the Alps to the Pannonian Basin in Austria and Slovenia:
- The Southern or Italian Prealps, usually divided into:
See also
- Operation Zone of the Alpine Foothills – a territory in Italy occupied by Nazi Germany in World War II
Footnotes
- From the geological point of view also the Alpi Cusiane and a small part of the Biellese Alps ranges of the Pennine Alps are considered prealps
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