Google Earth Community: Kurgans of Hungary

The „kurgans” (= kumanianhill or in hungarian "kunhalom" or simply mound, "halom") can be found everywhere in the Great Hungarian Plain. Some of them became famous because tales, legends, finds are attached to them. Natural or artificial origin of the „kurgans” was a contoversial question, but today we know that they propagate the hand work of our ancestors so they are artificial. Some of them were post hills, others are the graves of former notabilities or there were tents of the notabilities built on them. These hills were built by very hard work. Some of them were excavated by researchers while others were disturbed by the eager people. The tales, legends attaching to these hills are about the Tartars, Turkish, outlaws, treasure searchers and shamans. With their appearence the „kurgans” make the landscape varied and they are the part of the Hungarian Landscape. -credit-

-pics credit-

KMZ contains cca. 160 placemarks so far sorted in "no image" but most of them in "image illustrated" folders. (stay tuned for updates!)
Some of them needs to fix locations signed by "(?)", however it is worth to turn map-overlays off when checking marks as most of them are located in hi-res areas. using panoramio and/or GEC layers for best viewing!
Descriptions in hungarian so far but i think the photos are the juice of it.
Placemarks also sorted by color. darker marks with no image!
map-overlays off as default

EDIT: 16 tumuli of Kunhegyes with map and Csongrád county plus Deszk kurgan-map added.

Hope you will like it!

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acknowledgement:
-thanks summary and all the essential infos Kiss Csaba ( his study of profession ),
-thanks all about the mounds around Szentes to Bede Ádám, Dr. Csalog József, Körtvélyesi Zsolt and Dr. Tóth Albert ( magyarvárak.hu ),
-thanks the Öcsöd collection Enyedi Antalné and Kulik Zsolt,
-thanks Szabolcs county for the Ifjú Botanikusok Baráti Köre,
-thanks Tumuli of Kunhegyes Víg Márta ( kunhegyes.hu ) and anonym editor on kunhegyes.extra.hu,
-thanks the Makó-group for my ex-compeers: Dr. Lajtár Líviusz, Gál Mihály and Hajdu Zoltán,
-and many thanks at last the hungarian geocachers for all the great pics and coordinates!

Gratis: (and 8 more marks)
Körmendi Lajos: Robinson az árokparton
Földkatedrálisok (Soil cathedrals)

linkback to magyar trendi klub:
http://www.mtklub.hu/gec

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Edited by syzygy (07/12/08 04:17 AM)