Karawanken
The Karawanks or Karavankas or Karavanks are a mountain range of the Southern Limestone Alps on the border between Slovenia to the south and Austria to the north.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 1,067 metres
- Description: mountain range along the border Austria / Slovenia
- Also known as: “Karawanks”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Koschutnikturm / Košutnikov turn and Breitwand / Macesje.
Koschutnikturm / Košutnikov turn
Peak
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Koschutnikturm / Košutnikov turn is a peak, which is situated 3½ km north of Karawanken.
Breitwand / Macesje
Peak
Photo: Koschuta, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Breitwand / Macesje is a peak, which is situated 3½ km north of Karawanken.
Hohe Spitze / Visoki vrh
Peak
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Hohe Spitze / Visoki vrh is a peak, which is situated 3½ km northwest of Karawanken.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Spodnje Jezersko and Planina Šija.
Spodnje Jezersko
Village
Photo: Doremo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Spodnje Jezersko is a settlement in the Municipality of Jezersko in Slovenia. It is part of the traditional region of Carinthia and the Upper Carniola Statistical Region. Spodnje Jezersko is situated 5 km southeast of Karawanken.
Planina Šija
Locality
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Planina Šija is a locality, which is situated 6 km west of Karawanken.
Jelendol
Hamlet
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Jelendol is a settlement on the banks of the Tržič Bistrica River in the Municipality of Tržič in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia. Jelendol is situated 6 km west of Karawanken.
Karawanken
- Categories: alpine subsection and landform
- Location: Občina Tržič, Slovenia, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Karawanken” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كارافانكس”
- Armenian: “Կարավանկե”
- Basque: “Karavanke”
- Bulgarian: “Караванке”
- Cebuano: “Karawanken”
- Chinese: “卡拉萬克山”
- Croatian: “Karavanke”
- Czech: “Karavanky”
- Danish: “Karawanken”
- Dutch: “Karawanken”
- Estonian: “Karawankid”
- Finnish: “Karavanke”
- Finnish: “Karavankit”
- Finnish: “Karawanken”
- French: “Caravanche”
- French: “Karavanke”
- French: “Karawanken”
- French: “Karawankes”
- Georgian: “კარავანკე”
- German: “Karavanke”
- German: “Karawanken”
- German: “Karawankenvorberge”
- Hungarian: “Karavankák”
- Ido: “Karavanki”
- Indonesian: “Karawanken”
- Indonesian: “Pegunungan Karawanken”
- Italian: “Caravanche”
- Japanese: “カラヴァンケン山脈”
- Japanese: “カラヴァンケ山”
- Latvian: “Karavanki”
- Lithuanian: “Karavankai”
- Lithuanian: “Karavankė”
- Macedonian: “Караванки”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karavankene”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karawanken”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karavankane”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karavanke”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karavankene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karawanken”
- Norwegian: “Karavankene”
- Polish: “Karawanki”
- Portuguese: “Caravanche”
- Romanian: “Karawanken”
- Russian: “Караванке”
- Russian: “Караванкен”
- Russian: “Караванки”
- Serbian: “Karavanke”
- Serbian: “Karawanken”
- Serbian: “Караванке”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Karavanke”
- Slovak: “Karavanky”
- Slovenian: “Karavanke”
- Spanish: “Karavanke”
- Swahili: “Koschuta”
- Swedish: “Karawanken”
- Swedish: “Karawankerna”
- Ukrainian: “Караванке”
- Venetian: “Caravanche”
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