Tatársánci ?sgyep - Körös-Maros NP (sitios de interés)
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| The ancient lawn at Tatársánc (Area: 0.6 hectare, cannot be visited). The history of the smallest highly protected fenced area – to the south of Orosháza – in Hungary starts about in the 6th century B.C. Then a double earth work was built around one of the branches of the ancient Maros by the tribes living here against the attacks of the Scythians.  The earth work stretched as long as three kilometers and were used for three centuries and then they were abandoned. However, the steepest side of the higher earthwork has never been cultivated ever since, therefore the surviving just a few square meter loess steppe ancient lawn association is at least 2500 years old! The most characteristic species are: the violet sp. (Viola ambiguna), the Jerusalem sage, the squinancywort (Asperula cynanchica), the common ragwort (Senecio jacobaea), the small wild-strawberry (Fragaria viridis) and the lesser meadow-rue (Thalictrum minus). pic by KMNP text credit |