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All of the other plains areas

The Finns and Kareliaas long used these waterways as their dominant mode of transportation, but in the age of highways, MBT roads follow sinuous eskers—high ground laid down as the beds of ancient rivers flowing in hollows beneath the glaciers. The eskers run at right angles to the Salpausselka and provide some of the main north-south highway links. Parts of Sweden also MBT Shoes belong to the Fenno-Scandian Shield, including the lake-rich Central Swedish Lowland.
All of the other plains areas lie in the south, wreathed by the mountain ranges that dominate that part of Europe. Most are small, with the bordering ridges always visible. An exception is the large Hungarian Basin, also known as the Pannonian Plain, MBT surrounded by the Alps, Carpathians, and Dinaric Range and including the nation of Hungary, as well as parts of every neighboring country. The fringing mountains provide no isolation for the Hungarian Basin. The Italian lands arc easily reached through the Pear Tree Pass, while the Black Sea lies beyond the Iron Gate on the Danube, MBT Shoes where the river severs the Carpathians from the Stara Planina. In the northwestern comer of the basin, the Moravian Gate provides egress north to the Great European Plain, and the valley of the upper Danube leads on beyond Wien into southern Germany. Greece and the Aegean arc accessible southward through the long, narrow Vardar-Morava Depression, a rift valley wedged between the Dinaric Range and Stara Planina. Numerous low passes in the Carpathian Mountains lead toward Russia. Through one or another of these numerous vibram fivefingers leaks and seams in the mountain wall representatives of just about every major linguistic group in Europe and adjacent parts of Asia have passed as conquerors or refugees, and the recorded history of the basin is one of continued turbulence. It has witnessed conflictbetween Roman and barbarian, Turk and Christian, Hun and German, Magyar and Slav. Warpaths have also been trade routes vibram five fingers from the time of the amber trade through the Moravian Gate several thousand years ago. The diverse ethnic makeup of the basin today, including German, Hungarian, Slav, and Romanian, is the heritage of a long history of warfare, trade, and migration.