Nízký Jeseník
Nízký Jeseník (, ) is a flat highland and geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic. It is located in the east of the country in the Olomouc and Moravian-Silesian regions. Nízký Jeseník is the largest Czech geomorphological region, and is known for the former volcanic activity. Etymology According to the most probable theory, the name has its origin in the word jasan, i.e. "ash". Jeseník (respectively Jesenný stream) was first the name of a stream that flowed through an ash forest in a valley. The name was Germanized to Gesenke (i.e. "slope") and used as a name of a small town that was founded in the valley (but later disappeared), and then it was transferred first to the valley, and then to the whole mountain range. Later the name was changed back to Czech Jeseník. Jeseníky (plural form of Jeseník) is a collective term for an area that includes the mountain ranges of Nízký Jeseník (i.e. "low Jeseník") and Hrubý Jeseník (literally "rough Jeseník"). Geomorphology Nízký Jeseník is a mesoregion of the Eastern Sudetes, which is part of the Sudetes within the Bohemian Massif. It is described as a flat highland or low mountain range with an altitude that most