10 million years ago, Central Europe was covered by the Pannonian Sea — a vast inland sea the size of the Caspian. The Carpathian Mountains trapped it, rivers filled it with sediment, and it slowly vanished.
What’s left? The flattest plains in Europe. Lake Balaton. And cities built on ancient seafloor without knowing it.
Carolynyj_Ellison on
10 million years is basically nothing in geological time. Earth has been constantly redecorating and we just showed up during a quiet moment.
mahendrabirbikram on
RIP the Pannonian Sea
ZnarfGnirpslla on
is at a seafloor if there’s no sea anymore though??
XxX_datboi69_XxX on
flood it again
FerenzYangai on
Is this another reason that Hungary has been the home of many steppe nomads, because of its salty soil? The first reason I presume is that this land is a plain.
ilovemicronesia on
Hungary is Atlantis confirmed
vlaada7 on
I’m pretty sure big parts of northern Croatia were also under the Pannonia sea.
DrainZ- on
Petition to dam up Donau in the Carpathians and recreate the Pannonian Sea
SaphirRose on
It’s the reason why Pannonia one of the highest quality land on the planet. And why tiny Serbia and Hungary so agriculturaly powerful, with practically full self-sufficiency for their food.
But a lot of it came after 18th century when Austria and later Yugoslavia had huge de swamping projects. Even today remnants of those old swamps remain.
_ShartyWaffles on
Can you find fossils of fish etc. in Hungary?
helloworldII on
Make panonian sea great again!
Eraserguy on
Maps quite wrong in so many ways, doesn’t end neatly at the Cristian border for one lol
Ok-Reaction-1479 on
Herzegovina existed millions of years ago?
Damn, those people like fighting each other so much that it persisted through several ice ages and the absence of human life!
technotronica on
I don’t think this map is accurate for any time period. It strictly follows the Croatian borders. Once upon a time this sea was so large it covered even northern Bosnia. Kozara and Majevica were offshore islands and/or peninsulas, similar to Hvar and Korčula in the Adriatic today.
Even further back this area was an even larger sea, that went from Slovenia to Turkmenistan. Slovenia was a strait that connected this wast inland sea to the world seas.
Even much further back in geological time scales this entire part of the world was a wast ocean that was between Africa and Eurasia, it is called Tethys ocean.
NetraamR on
Personally I wouldn’t mind if we return to the original situation.
NCC_1701E on
I live in Bratislava, and there is this sandy hill here named Sandberg that’s full of sea life fossils. You can walk around and see stuff like big sea snail sheel just embeded in the rock. I found it absolutely fascinating when I saw it first time as a kid.
Hour-Promotion-2496 on
AI slop? It certainly didn’t follow the Croatian border lol. It also included all of northern Croatia.
GSilky on
So does the „Mile High City“ of Denver.
PaysanneDePrahovie on
We still have them again.
According_Fish3393 on
Romanians would love to fill it again.
Wonderful-Regular658 on
In South Moravia there was until the 19th century a semi-saline lake with an area of 10 km² near Čejč as remnant of Pannonian sea, people destroyed lake for agriculture. It was nearly naturally restored in the 20th century, but in 1965 it was destroyed by people for agricultural purposes (there are water pumps). I recently found [this ](https://cejcskejezero.cz/)page, which wants its restoring. Maybe because of lakes especially salt ones is my land Moravia called like that, since the Indo-European root *-mor-* means sea.
slavmaf on
Legendary Serbian poet Đorđe Balašević has a song about this, „The Panonian Sailor“, the joke being he introduces himself to girls as a sailor while being from the plains in Northern Serbia, a sailor from the Panonian Sea.
„Some sailors lose their ship,
but to lose your sea?
now that’s some bad luck!“
Fit_Influence6811 on
As a hungarian, this would be an improvement
Canchal on
Hungarsea to Hungary
PomegranateSoft1598 on
Explains the amount of piracy done in Hungary
lee_vet-in on
This land was promised to the Hungarians 10 million years ago
GYuGYu_jol on
camus
cagingnicolas on
i’m sure lots of places have been underwater if you go far enough back in time.
Legal_Mastodon_5683 on
It was bigger than that, went to half of continental Croatia as well.
Syrmin on
People who creating maps need to understand simple fact: almost NOTHING follows current national borders especially not ancient physical geography…
Eris13x on
„Seafloor“ is an exaggeration imo. It’s a frequently flooded continental margin, like Florida or the North Sea. It’s a piece of a continent that’s been shaped by ocean water, but frankly basically all parts of continents have been underwater at one point.
budna on
another terrible map with minimal or no labels, sources, legends, etc, posted by u/vladgrinch. Keep up the good work, buddy. 👍
Equivalent_Twist_977 on
The Pannonian sea was allergic to future Croatia
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10 million years ago, Central Europe was covered by the Pannonian Sea — a vast inland sea the size of the Caspian. The Carpathian Mountains trapped it, rivers filled it with sediment, and it slowly vanished.
What’s left? The flattest plains in Europe. Lake Balaton. And cities built on ancient seafloor without knowing it.
10 million years is basically nothing in geological time. Earth has been constantly redecorating and we just showed up during a quiet moment.
RIP the Pannonian Sea
is at a seafloor if there’s no sea anymore though??
flood it again
Is this another reason that Hungary has been the home of many steppe nomads, because of its salty soil? The first reason I presume is that this land is a plain.
Hungary is Atlantis confirmed
I’m pretty sure big parts of northern Croatia were also under the Pannonia sea.
Petition to dam up Donau in the Carpathians and recreate the Pannonian Sea
It’s the reason why Pannonia one of the highest quality land on the planet. And why tiny Serbia and Hungary so agriculturaly powerful, with practically full self-sufficiency for their food.
But a lot of it came after 18th century when Austria and later Yugoslavia had huge de swamping projects. Even today remnants of those old swamps remain.
Can you find fossils of fish etc. in Hungary?
Make panonian sea great again!
Maps quite wrong in so many ways, doesn’t end neatly at the Cristian border for one lol
Herzegovina existed millions of years ago?
Damn, those people like fighting each other so much that it persisted through several ice ages and the absence of human life!
I don’t think this map is accurate for any time period. It strictly follows the Croatian borders. Once upon a time this sea was so large it covered even northern Bosnia. Kozara and Majevica were offshore islands and/or peninsulas, similar to Hvar and Korčula in the Adriatic today.
Even further back this area was an even larger sea, that went from Slovenia to Turkmenistan. Slovenia was a strait that connected this wast inland sea to the world seas.
Even much further back in geological time scales this entire part of the world was a wast ocean that was between Africa and Eurasia, it is called Tethys ocean.
Personally I wouldn’t mind if we return to the original situation.
I live in Bratislava, and there is this sandy hill here named Sandberg that’s full of sea life fossils. You can walk around and see stuff like big sea snail sheel just embeded in the rock. I found it absolutely fascinating when I saw it first time as a kid.
AI slop? It certainly didn’t follow the Croatian border lol. It also included all of northern Croatia.
So does the „Mile High City“ of Denver.
We still have them again.
Romanians would love to fill it again.
In South Moravia there was until the 19th century a semi-saline lake with an area of 10 km² near Čejč as remnant of Pannonian sea, people destroyed lake for agriculture. It was nearly naturally restored in the 20th century, but in 1965 it was destroyed by people for agricultural purposes (there are water pumps). I recently found [this ](https://cejcskejezero.cz/)page, which wants its restoring. Maybe because of lakes especially salt ones is my land Moravia called like that, since the Indo-European root *-mor-* means sea.
Legendary Serbian poet Đorđe Balašević has a song about this, „The Panonian Sailor“, the joke being he introduces himself to girls as a sailor while being from the plains in Northern Serbia, a sailor from the Panonian Sea.
„Some sailors lose their ship,
but to lose your sea?
now that’s some bad luck!“
As a hungarian, this would be an improvement
Hungarsea to Hungary
Explains the amount of piracy done in Hungary
This land was promised to the Hungarians 10 million years ago
camus
i’m sure lots of places have been underwater if you go far enough back in time.
It was bigger than that, went to half of continental Croatia as well.
People who creating maps need to understand simple fact: almost NOTHING follows current national borders especially not ancient physical geography…
„Seafloor“ is an exaggeration imo. It’s a frequently flooded continental margin, like Florida or the North Sea. It’s a piece of a continent that’s been shaped by ocean water, but frankly basically all parts of continents have been underwater at one point.
another terrible map with minimal or no labels, sources, legends, etc, posted by u/vladgrinch. Keep up the good work, buddy. 👍
The Pannonian sea was allergic to future Croatia