Az új Nemzeti Atlaszban szereplő földrajzi tájbeosztás

Drawing the map of landscape division in the new National Atlas of Hungary, the authors followed two basic principies: 1) the hierarchy levels should adjust to the major regions of Europe and, if possible, to the taxonomic Systems elaborated in the neighbouring countries; 2) landscape names and delineations should not be influenced by national borders. The former number of regions has been reduced from 35 to 31, but 6 ‘new’ regions also appeared on the present territory of Hungary: the Fertő-Moson Piain, the Styrian Prealps, the Danubian (Váh-Nitra-Hron) Hills, the Alpine Foreland of the Rába (Raab), the Banat Piain and the Nógrád (Novohrad)-Abaúj (Abov) Depression. The microregions were affected by the most fundamental changes: instead of the former 230 microregions the new map of landscape divisions contains only 195 of them. More than 1/3 of the names of the microregions have been modified, realizing a more consistent nomenclature. Among the microregion-groups and macroregions an almost forgottén histo- rical name, the Vajdavár Region, reappears. Since in the case of many microregions the area beyond the national bordér, in a neighbouring country, is more extended, it seemed justified to employ the Hungárián versions of the official names used there (e.g. Németújvár/Güssing Hills, Losonc/Lucenec Basin). The authors tried to leave out hints to geomorphological features from the landscape names (e.g. floodplain, terrace, alluvial fan and others). In addition to the terminology, the alignment of landscape boundaries was also revised, bút they were only modified where recent research led to considerable shiff (at least 8-10 km) in the boundaries.