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polje Physical Geogr.|ˈpɒljə|
Also polye. Pl. poljes, ‖ polja, (after Ger.) poljen.
[Serbo-Croat polje field.]
An enclosed plain in a karstic region, esp. Yugoslavia, that is larger than a uvala and usu. has steep enclosing walls and a covering of alluvium.
1894Geogr. Jrnl. III. 323 The poljen occur at low levels, and therefore receive an enormous supply of ‘ground water’, especially at the times of the autumn or winter rains, which the underground outlet cannot carry it [sic] off fast enough. 1902Ibid. XX. 428 In spring..the floors of the polyes are flooded. 1918D. W. Johnson Topogr. & Strategy in War xiv. 169 In the rear of the Serbian armies..runs the straight subsidiary trench formed by the Lepenatz valley, Kosovo Polye, and the Ibar valley. 1926Geogr. Jrnl. LXVII. 197 Lakes in the high calcareous Alps of Switzerland occupy dolines or polyes, the bottom of which have been more or less filled by deposits of impervious material derived from the ground moraines of the ancient glaciers. 1934Discovery Sept. 247/1 Some of these polja are periodic lakes. 1954W. D. Thornbury Princ. Geomorphol. xiii. 324 The largest polje in the Western Balkans, the Livno polje, is 40 miles long and 3 to 7 miles wide. 1958Geogr. Jrnl. CXXIV. 41 Some of the largest polja are found among the Dinaric Alps in the hinterland of Split. 1960B. W. Sparks Geomorphol. vii. 155 The largest depressions of Yugoslavia, the poljes, are probably not solution forms at all but tectonic depressions modified by solution of the limestone preserved in them. 1972Science 12 May 664/3 The perennial flooding of the farmlands in the poljes of Yugoslavia. |