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Lake Balaton (German: ''Plattensee'') is a freshwater lake in the Transdanubian region of Hungary. It is the largest lake in Central Europe,〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=''Encyclopædia Britannica'' )〕 and one of the region's foremost tourist destinations. The Zala River provides the largest inflow of water to the lake, and the canalised Sió is the only outflow. The mountainous region of the northern shore is known both for its historic character and as a major wine region, while the flat southern shore is known for its resort towns. Balatonfüred and Hévíz developed early as resorts for the wealthy, but it was not until the late 19th century when landowners, ruined by ''Phylloxera'' attacking their grape vines, began building summer homes to rent out to the burgeoning middle classes. ==Name== In Hungarian, the lake is known simply as ''Balaton''. It was called ''Lacus Pelsodis'' or ''Pelso'' by the Romans. The name is a substrate, probably Indo-European (Latin *''palud''- Rumantsch ''paltaun''), later influenced by the Slavic ''blato'' meaning 'mud' or 'swamp' (from earlier Proto-Slavic ''boltьno'', (スロベニア語:Blatno jezero), (スロバキア語:Blatenské jazero)). Slavic prince Pribina began to build in January 846 a fortress as his seat of power and several churches in the region of Lake Balaton, in a territory of modern Zalavár surrounded by forests and swamps along the river Zala.〔Bartl 2002, p. 19.〕〔Róna-Tas 1999, p. 243.〕〔Goldberg 2006, p. 85.〕 His well fortified castle and capital of Balaton Principality that became known as ''Blatnohrad'' or ''Moosburg'' ("Swamp Fortress") served as a bulwark both against the Bulgarians and the Moravians.〔〔〔 The Romans called the lake ''Lacus Pelso'' ("Lake Pelso"). ''Pelso'' derives from a local name for the lake, perhaps from the Illyrian language, as the Illyrians once populated the region. The German name for the lake is ''ドイツ語:Plattensee''. It is unlikely that the Germans named the lake so for being shallow since the adjective ''ドイツ語:platt'' is a Greek loanword that was borrowed via French and entered the general German vocabulary in the 17th century.〔Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, 24. Aufl., s. v.〕 It is also noteworthy that the average depth of Balaton (3.2m)〔() 〕 is not extraordinary for the area (cf. the average depth of the neighbouring Neusiedler See, which is roughly 1m).〔() 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lake Balaton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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