Hortobagy National Park

Hortobagy is an 800 km2 countrywide park in jap Hungary, rich with folklore and cultural records. The park, part of the Alfold, was targeted as a national park in 1973 and elected many of the World Heritage sites in 1999. The Hortobagy is Hungary's biggest included region, and the largest semi-natural grassland in Europe.

Until these days it changed into believed that this alkaline steppe was shaped by the clean cutting of massive forests inside the Middle Ages, followed via measures to control the direction of the Tisza River, allegedly ensuing in the soil's cutting-edge shape and pH. However, Hortobagy is lots older, with alkalinization envisioned to have began 10000 years ago, when the Tisza first found its manner via the Great Hungarian Plain, slicing off many streams from their resources in the Northern Mountains. The formation was completed with the aid of grazing animals and wild horses throughout the Ice Age, followed by way of domesticated animals.