Introduction

Slovakia is one of the most mountainous countries in Europe. The highest point is located in the Tatra Mountains (Gerlachovský štít 2655m) and the lowest point is in the Bodrog valley (94m).

 

The extreme points of the Slovak territory are:

q       in the north: near a top of Mondrálova in Babia hora massiv on the Polish border (49:37)

q       in the south: Donau coast near the village of Patnice on the Hungarian border (47:44)

q       in the west: Morava coast near the village of Záhorska Ves on the Austrian border (16:50)

q       in the east: near a top of Kremenec in Bukovské vrchy on the Ukrainian/Polish border (22:34)

 

Slovakian mountains belong to the Western Carpathians (a tiny part in the east belong to the Eastern Carpathians). The main rivers have estuaries in the Danube: Vah, Hron, Hornad and Torisa. The majority of the Slovak territory belongs to the basin of the Black Sea, but the highest part (High Tatras) belongs to the Baltic Sea (upper Poprad valley).

 

Technical data

For the each peak the following information is provided:

1.       Peak – official Slovak name, for border peaks alternative name in brackets, distinguishing adjectives (if needed added by the author) in italics.

2.       Height – taken from the Source Map.

3.       Prominence – difference between Height and Key Col Height.

4.       Key Col – Slovak name of the Key Col; if the whole name is in italics the col is nameless: with geographical direction symbol and name of a village it refers to the nearest named point, if “local” it means that the col is on a ridge in a neighbourhood of the analysed peak.

5.       Col Height – taken from the Source Map, if in italics estimated from contour lines.

6.       Prominence Parent – name of the Prominence Parent (a higher and more prominent neighbour).

7.       Latitude – rounded to 5’’ (exception: Tatry with 1” precision).

8.       Longitude – rounded to 5’’ (exception: Tatry with 1” precision).

9.       Source Map – a number of the sheet of the Turistický Atlas Slovenska (described below)

10.   Country – SK: wholly in Slovakia, SK/CZ – Czech border, SK/PL – Polish border, SK/UA – Ukrainian border, SK/HU- Hungarian border.

11.   Group – part of the geographical massif, if in italics introduced by the author for more precision.

12.   Massif – Slovak name of the massif; geographical split is mostly according to the Slovak geography and may be divergent with other sources.

 

The prevailing source for the prominence calculations and peaks&cols names is:

Turistický Atlas Slovenska

Scale: 1:50.000

Contour lines grid: 20m

Edited by: VKU Harmanec

Edition year: 2005

Number of sheets: 372

 

Source of geographical information: Barbara Zygmańska, “Góry Słowacji”, ed. Pascal 2005 (in Polish).