An image of Italian Karst (Monfalcone). Dissolution images (as vertical grooves) are clearly visible.

Kras (Carso in Italian), also called the Classical Karst or the Kras Plateau, is a limestone borderline plateau region of southwestern Slovenia extending into northeastern Italy. It lies between the Vipava valley, the Vipavska brda, the most westerly part of Brkini hills, Gulf of Trieste and a short part of Italian state border between the Gulf of Trieste and the Vipava River. Its western border is an old ethnic border between Italians and Slovenes. The region is famous as the inspiration for the geological term karst topography. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2304x1536, 1471 KB) Author: Alessandro Brollo (Alex brollo) Location: Monfalcone (north-eastern Italy) Time: Nov 2005 Subject: Emerging rocks into the Monfalcone Karst (Kras). ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2304x1536, 1471 KB) Author: Alessandro Brollo (Alex brollo) Location: Monfalcone (north-eastern Italy) Time: Nov 2005 Subject: Emerging rocks into the Monfalcone Karst (Kras). ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Gulf of Trieste and the littoral The Gulf of Trieste (Italian: Golfo di Trieste, Slovene: Tržaški zaliv, German: Golf von Triest ) is a shallow bay of the Adriatic Sea, in the extreme northern part of the Mediterranean Sea. ... Gulf of Trieste and the littoral The Gulf of Trieste (Italian: Golfo di Trieste, Slovene: Tržaški zaliv, German: Golf von Triest ) is a shallow bay of the Adriatic Sea, in the extreme northern part of the Mediterranean Sea. ... Karst topography is a three-dimensional landscape shaped by the dissolution of a soluble layer or layers of bedrock, usually carbonate rock such as limestone or dolomite. ...

The plateau rises quite steeply above the neighboring landscape, with the exception of the southeastern side, where the steepness is less prounounced. The plateau gradually descends from the southeast to the southwest. On average it lies 334 metres above sea level. Because Kras steeply descends towards the Adriatic Sea (see: Kraški rob), it is less exposed to the beneficial climatological effects of the sea. The main vegetation in the past were oaks, but now are pine forests. Forests now cover only one third of Kras. A satellite image of the Adriatic Sea. ... Species See List of Quercus species The term oak can be used as part of the common name of any of several hundred species of trees and shrubs in the genus Quercus, and some related genera, notably Cyclobalanopsis and Lithocarpus. ... Subgenera Subgenus Strobus Subgenus Ducampopinus Subgenus Pinus See Pinus classification for complete taxonomy to species level. ... Eucalyptus Forest at Swifts Creek in East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. ...

Kras is famous for its caves. In Slovenia, they include Vilenica (the oldest tourist cave in the world), Lipica cave, Divača cave, Kačna cave, Postojna cave and Škocjan caves (UNESCO world heritage site), while in Italy there is the Grotta Gigante (the biggest tourist cave in the world, with a special horizontal pendulum that measures the ebb and flow effect of the moon on the earth). Lechuguilla Cave, New Mexico This article is about natural caves; for artificial caves used as dwellings, such as those in north China, see yaodong. ... Cave specifications: lenght: 1300 m depth: 190 m lenght (for turists): 450 m depth (for turists): 72m ... The Karstic cave system at Postojna Postojna Cave (Slovenian: Postojnska jama) is a 20,570 m long Karst cave system near Postojna, Slovenia It is the longest cave system in the country as well as one of its top touristic sites. ... Subterranean flow of the Reka River in Å kocjanske jame (cave system) Å kocjan Caves (Slovene Å kocjanske jame) is a system of limestone caves in the Kras (Karst) region in SW Slovenia, containing collapsed dolines, about 5 kilometres of underground passages, caves more than 200 metres deep and many waterfalls. ... UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established in 1945. ... Grotta Gigante also known as Riesengrotte or as Grotta di Brisciachi, is a giant cave on the Italian side of the Trieste Karst. ... Apparent magnitude: up to -12. ... Adjectives: Terrestrial, Terran, Telluric, Tellurian, Earthly Atmosphere Surface pressure: 101. ...

Most of Kras is located in Southwestern Slovenia on an area of 429 square kilometres, and has a population of about 19,000 people. Kras as a whole has exactly 100 settlements. The town of Sežana is the center of Kras on the Slovene side of the border; it is where the poet Srečko Kosovel was born. The main rural centers are the settlements of Divača, Dutovlje, and Komen. Štanjel is a picturesque nucleate settlement at the top of the northern rim of the plateau; its houses are tightly clustered around the Turn hill, giving it the appearance of a medieval city. Area: 217,4 km² Population  - males  - females 11,842 5,800 6,042 Average age: 39. ... Srečko Kosovel Srečko Kosovel (1904–1926) was a Slovene avante-garde poet from the Kras region of Slovenia. ... Divača is a small municipality in southwestern Slovenia, a few kilometres from the Italian border and Trieste. ... Area: 102,7 km² Population  - males  - females 3. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times. ...

Natural conditions, including the bora (burja) wind, and the local way of life all shaped the elements of Kras architecture, creating simple but well-defined forms. Kras is widely known for its wine, named teran, and prosciutto. One of the main tourist centers in the area is Lipica, with horse stables (the home of the Lipizzan horse breed) as well as other tourist facilities. Bora, also known as Bura (in Croatian) or Burja (in Slovenian) is a northern to north-eastern katabatic wind in the Adriatic, Greece and Turkey. ... The Parthenon on top of the Acropolis, Athens, Greece Architecture (from Latin, architectura and ultimately from Greek, αρχιτεκτων, a master builder, from αρχι- chief, leader and τεκτων, builder, carpenter) is the art and science of designing buildings and structures. ... A glass of red wine This article is about the alcoholic beverage. ... Teran is a wine produced on the Kras plateau in Croatia, Slovenia and Italy from the grapes of the vine refošk (Italian: refosco). ... Prosciutto Prosciutto (IPA: ) is the Italian word for ham, used in English to refer to dry-cured ham (prosciutto crudo). ... Lipica is a town in Slovenia, the main tourist center of the Kras region. ... Binomial name Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758 The horse (Equus caballus, sometimes seen as a subspecies of the Wild Horse, Equus ferus caballus) is a large odd-toed ungulate mammal, one of ten modern species of the genus Equus. ... A Lipizzaner. ...

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