Devín Gate

<h2 id="name">Name</h2>
<p>Formerly, the gate was called in <a href="/facts/Latin_language/pM3Kge85">Latin</a>: <i>Porta Hungarica</i> and in <a href="/facts/Hungarian_language/nt4g0ano">Hungarian</a>: <i>Dévényi kapu</i>.
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<h2 id="location-and-description">Location and description</h2>
<p>In a wider sense it begins below <a href="/facts/Bratislava_Castle/0qxq1csh">Bratislava Castle</a> (in which case the gate is 11.5 km long and 2 to 7 km wide) and in a narrower sense it begins below <a href="/facts/Dev%25C3%25ADn_Castle/CbptH915">Devín Castle</a>. It ends near <a href="/facts/Hundsheimer_Berg/JDTYFzUz">Hundsheimer Berg</a>, the highest peak of the <a href="/facts/Hundsheimer_Berge/NvPwMdcM">Austrian Carpathians</a> at 480 meters <a href="/facts/AMSL/Aqv1HLP2">AMSL</a>, in Austria on the right bank of the Danube. To the east, it borders another natural gate, the <a href="/facts/Lama%25C4%258D_Gate/FzVs40UX">Lamač Gate</a>.
</p><p>Geologically, Devín Gate was created during the <a href="/facts/Pleistocene/0ya9eUp5">Pleistocene</a> epoch. A large part of its core consists of <a href="/facts/Granite/G2evuVKo">granite</a> massifs from the <a href="/facts/Carboniferous/BRKlkYyd">Carboniferous</a> period. It also features <a href="/facts/Limestone/8ntvtFnR">limestones</a> and <a href="/facts/Dolomite_(rock)/EGXDL0zm">dolomites</a> from the <a href="/facts/Cenozoic/yFslcz6n">Cenozoic</a> era. <a href="/facts/Neogene/zUJxvjuH">Neogene</a> period sediments include <a href="/facts/Conglomerate_(geology)/llpnLX76">conglomerates</a>, <a href="/facts/Gravel/IwHG9JfI">gravels</a> and others. On the Upper Danube, comprising the section between the springs where the river begins and Devín Gate upstream of Bratislava, the extension of the morphological floodplain is smaller as compared to the rest of the river.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a>
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<h2 id="history">History</h2>
<p> dubious 
</p><p>Neolithic farmers settled in the area approximately 5000 - 3500 BC, establishing continuous human settlement which lasts until present time.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a>
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Geography_of_Bratislava/FFLjAJ9c">Geography of Bratislava</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Britannica: Hungarian Gates <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Hungarian-Gates" target="_blank">https://www.britannica.com/place/Hungarian-Gates</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR): Danube Basin/River Basin, Section: Middle Basin <a href="https://www.icpdr.org/main/danube-basin/river-basin" target="_blank">https://www.icpdr.org/main/danube-basin/river-basin</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>"Vyhliadková plavba: Tri hrady v Devínskej bráne". panorama.sk. Retrieved 3 July 2012. <a href="http://www.panorama.sk/sk/sprievodca/vyhliadkova-plavba-devinska-brana/2218" target="_blank">http://www.panorama.sk/sk/sprievodca/vyhliadkova-plavba-devinska-brana/2218</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Schneider, Dister and Dopke, 2009 <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>"NPR Devínska Kobyla". geomuz-devkob.blogspot.sk. Retrieved 3 July 2012. <a href="http://geomuz-devkob.blogspot.sk/" target="_blank">http://geomuz-devkob.blogspot.sk/</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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Devín Gate