Carpathians

Green mountains, Carpathians, with trees.

The Carpathian Mountains, or Carpathians, are a mountain range forming an arc across Central and Southeast Europe, stretching for about 1,500 km (around 900 miles) along the borders of Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine, Austria, Serbia, and northern Hungary.

In Ukrainian, they are called Карпати (Karpati). The name Carpates is thought to be linked to the ancient Dacian tribes known as the Carpes or Carpi, who lived to the east of the Carpathians, from the northeast of the Black Sea to the Transylvanian Plain in present-day Romania and Moldova.