Krkonoše-Jesenica subprovince
Krkonoše-Jesenická subprovince or Sudetes (formerly Sudetes system, still in German Sudeten, Polish Sudetes, English Sudetes) is a massive mountain range in the north of the Czech Republic, in southwestern Poland and southeastern Saxony. In the west, the Elbe separates it from the Ore Mountains subprovince and in the east, the Oder from the Carpathians. The original name Sudetes 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 system was 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 to the east by the highest mountain of Moravia and Silesia Praděd (1491 m). It has its own challenge Koruna Sudet.
