Mecsek
Mecsek is a mountain range in southern Hungary. It is situated in the Baranya region, in the north of the city of Pécs.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Mountain range with an elevation of 376 metres
- Description: mountain range
- Also known as: “Baranya Mountains”, “Mecsek Hegység”, and “Mecsek Mountains”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Medieval church in Mánfa and Komló railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Komló and Zobákpuszta.
Komló
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Komló is a town in Baranya county, Hungary. The name of the settlement is derived from the local crop of hops, an ingredient of beer. By the 18th century a depiction of this plant running up a support already featured on the herald of the town.
Mecsek
- Categories: geographical small region of Hungary, Natura 2000 site, and landform
- Location: Hungary, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.16755° or 46° 10′ 3″ northLongitude
18.24695° or 18° 14′ 49″ eastElevation
376 metres (1,234 feet)Open location code
8FRW569W+2QOpenStreetMap ID
way 279665961OpenStreetMap feature
natural=mountain_range
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Venetian—“Mecsek” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Мечек”
- Catalan: “Mecsek”
- Cebuano: “Mecsek”
- Chinese: “梅切克山脉”
- Chinese: “迈切克山”
- Chinese: “邁切克山”
- Czech: “Mecsek”
- Dutch: “Mecsekgebergte”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميكسك”
- Esperanto: “Mecsek”
- Finnish: “Mecsek”
- French: “Mecsek”
- German: “Mecsek”
- German: “Mecsekgebirge”
- Hungarian: “Mecsek”
- Italian: “Mecsek”
- Ladin: “Mecsek”
- Latvian: “Mečeki”
- Lithuanian: “Mečekas”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mecsek”
- Polish: “Mecsek”
- Romanian: “Mecsek”
- Russian: “Мечек”
- Serbian: “Мечек”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mecsek”
- Spanish: “Montes Mecsek”
- Swedish: “Mecsek (bergskedja i Ungern)”
- Swedish: “Mecsek”
- Ukrainian: “Мечек”
- Venetian: “Mecsek”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mecsek”. Photo: Cserlajos, CC BY-SA 3.0.