CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS, or KRAPACKS, a great central European chain, inclosing Transylvania and Hungary, in a curve 800 miles long, the eastern point of which
Carpatus rests on the Danube at Orsova, the western on the same river at Presburg. It forms the main water-shed between the northern seas and the Black Sea, and varies in elevation from 200 to nearly 9000 feet. See HUNGARY and TRANSYLVANIA.