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* Lake Balaton in Hungary, the largest lake in central Europe
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Lake Balaton, the largest, is 78 km long and from 3 to 14 km wide, with an area of 592 square km.
Lake Balaton, the largest, is 78 km long and from 3 to 14 km wide, with an area of 592 km < sup > 2 </ sup >.
Lake Balaton is Central Europe's largest lake and a prosperous tourist spot and recreation area.
Lake Balaton
One of Hungary ’ s top tourist destinations is Lake Balaton, the largest freshwater lake in Central Europe, with a number of 1, 2 million visitors in 2008.
) The five international ones are Budapest-Liszt Ferenc, Debrecen Airport, Sármellék Airport ( also called FlyBalaton for its proximity to Lake Balaton, Hungary's number one tourist attraction ), Győr-Pér and Pécs-Pogány.
Lake Balaton, or the Balaton, is a freshwater lake in the Transdanubian region of Hungary.
As Hungary is landlocked ( its coastline was severed after World War I ), Lake Balaton is often affectionately called the " Hungarian Sea ".
Slavic prince Pribina began to build in January 846 a large fortress as his seat of power and several churches in the region of Lake Balaton, in a territory of modern Zalavár surrounded by forests and swamps along the river Zala.
Lake Balaton affects the local area precipitation every year.
The microclimate around Lake Balaton has also made the region ideal for viniculture.
While a few settlements on Lake Balaton, including Balatonfüred and Hévíz, have long been resort centres for the Hungarian aristocracy, it was only in the late 19th century that the Hungarian middle class began to visit the lake.
Operation Frühlingserwachen was conducted in the region of Lake Balaton in March 1945, being referred to as " the Lake Balaton Offensive " in many British histories of the Second World War.
Towns and villages alongside Lake Balaton.
One of Hungary ’ s top tourist destinations is Lake Balaton, the largest freshwater lake in Central Europe, with a number of 1, 2 million visitors in 2008.
The foundation charter was drawn up on the northern shore of Lake Balaton.
It turned out, however, that the resulting Lake Tisza became one of the most popular tourist destinations in Hungary, since it had similar features to Lake Balaton at drastically cheaper prices and it was not crowded.
The freshwater lake sits at above sea level and is Central Europe's third largest, after Lake Balaton and Lake Geneva.
Other cherries grown in the region include the Ulster, or sweet cherry, and the Balaton ( from Lake Balaton in Hungary ), a cherry situated between the Montmorency and Ulster in terms of color and taste.
Lake and Hungary
Smaller bodies of water are Lake Velence ( 26 square km ) in Fejér County and Lake Fertő ( Neusiedler See -- about 82 square km within Hungary ).
Smaller bodies of water include Lake Velence ( 26 km < sup > 2 </ sup >) in Fejér County and Lake Fertő ( 82 km < sup > 2 </ sup > within Hungary ).
* 127 km < sup > 2 </ sup > -- Lake Tisza, Hungary
* Lake Hévíz is close to the city of Hévíz, Hungary.
Sopron (;,, Latin: Scarbantia ) is a city in Hungary on the Austrian border, near the Lake Neusiedl / Lake Fertő.
His first position was as research biologist at the Tihanyi Biological Station on Lake Balaton in western Hungary.
Since its foundation the members have met at Lake Balaton in Hungary, every autumn.
* Balaton, a village in Heves county, Northern Hungary, far from Lake Balaton
* Lake Neusiedl, in Austria and Hungary.
* Lake Velence, in Hungary.
Kálmán was born Imre Koppstein in Siófok, on the southern shore of Lake Balaton, Hungary ( formerly Austria-Hungary ) in a Jewish family.
Bright had a special affection for Hungary and in 1815 he lived in Festetics Castle in Keszthely, where there is a large plaque: “ To the memory of the English physician scientist and traveller who was one of the pioneers in the accurate description of Lake Balaton .”
Lake Hévíz is located close to Hévíz, Hungary, near the western end of Lake Balaton, five miles from Keszthely.
Lake and largest
Turkey's largest lake, Lake Van, is situated in the mountains at an elevation of.
Lake Sevan, across at its widest point and long, is by far the largest lake.
landlocked in the Lesser Caucasus Mountains ; Sevana Lich ( Lake Sevan ) is the largest lake in this mountain range
* 1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang ; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.
* Lake Turkana, Kenya ( the largest alkali lake in the world )
Hers was the largest gift at that time to the National Trust and it enabled the preservation of the lands now included in the Lake District National Park and the continuation of fell farming.
Lake Chad is the second largest lake in west Africa and is one of the most important wetlands on the continent.
The seventh largest lake in the world ( and the fourth largest in Africa ), Lake Chad is located in the sahelian zone, a region just south of the Sahara Desert.
: Hydropower from Lake Arenal, the largest lake in Costa Rica.
Cayuga Lake ( or )&# 160 ; is the longest of central New York's glacial Finger Lakes, and is the second largest in surface area ( marginally smaller than Seneca Lake ) and second largest in volume.
The Lake Cadillac is entirely within the city limits, and some claim it is the largest lake entirely in any city in the United States.
One of the largest springs, Boiling Lake, is located in the national park.
The largest lake of the Hispaniola, and of the West Indies, is the Lake Enriquillo.
Lake Nasser, the world's largest artificial lake, has enabled planned use of the Nile regardless of the amount of rainfall in Central Africa and East Africa.
The largest of them, Lake Peipus (), forms much of the border between Estonia and Russia.
The largest is Lake Saimaa, which, with a surface area of more than, is the fifth largest lake in Europe.
* The third largest of the country's 60, 000 lakes, Lake Inari in the Lapland province of extreme northern Finland, has a surface area of, a total shore length of, a maximum depth of, some 3, 318 islands, and a total water volume of.
At its largest, Lake Chad may have acted as a barrier between West African and Kordofan giraffes during the Holocene.
The largest lake of Haiti, and the second largest lake of Ile d ' Haiti and the West Indies, is Lake Azuei.
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