Bakony Wald (Forest of Bakony), a densely wooded hill-country of Hungary, extending from Lake Balaton northward to the Danube, and dividing the great and little Hungarian plains. Immense herds of swine are annually driven hither to feed upon the mast of the forest. The swine-herds furnished those notorious robbers who play so important a part in the ballads of the Hungarian people, and in the imagination of travellers. Its length is about 55 miles, its breadth 25 miles.
Bakony Wald
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 668
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