Maps of areas in Eastern Europe where LGDs live

These are maps of countries that Kuvasz and Polish Tatras and Slovakian Chuvach live. They are three of the five Great White Guardians of Europe.

Hungarian Kuvasz - Slovak Chuvach - Polish Tatra Sheepdog -- all connected geographically, while still in different terrains: mountains, plains, plateaus.

Slovakia borders on the northern side of Hungary. The Chuvach lives in the mountains of Slovakia while the Kuvasz lives in the plains of Hungary.

Here is a map to show the proximity of the countries Slovakia and Hungary, and thus possibly the relation the Chuvach and the Kuvasz.

Also the Tatra Mountains in the northern part of Slovakia share a border with Poland, the home of the Polish Tatra Ovarchka, another "cousin" of the Kuvasz.

About the family of Livestock Guardian Dogs...

“To this day flocks are guarded in the hills of Asia, Europe and Africa* by powerful, robust dogs that are neither clumsy nor pacific. Despite the distances that separate them these breeds have much in common, and the Kuvasz is a member of this extended sheepdog family.” 

Dr. Buzády Tibor. 2002. Dogs of Hungary. Translated by Bernard Adams. Budapest, Hungary: Nóra Kiadó.  P. 100.

*(and now also in North America, South America and Australia)

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