Krkonoše-Jesenica subprovince
Krkonoše-Jesenická subprovince (formerly the Sudeten Mountains, still in German Sudeten, Polish Sudety, English Sudetes) is a mountain range in the north of the Czech Republic, in southwestern Poland and southeastern Saxony. The original name Sudeten is probably of Celtic origin and means forest of boars. In the 20th century, this name was transferred to most of the Czech borderland, inhabited since the Middle Ages by a German minority, and in the 1970s, the Sudeten Mountains were renamed Krkonoše-Jesenická after pressure from communist propagandists. It is divided into 3 areas (Krkonoše, Orlická and Jesenická), which are bordered to the north by the Krkonoše-Jesenická foothills. It is the highest of the 6 sub-provinces of the Bohemian Highlands and is crowned by the highest Czech mountain Sněžka (1603 m) and in the east by the highest mountain of Moravia and Silesia Praděd (1491 m).
