Puszta
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Puszta (Hungarian pronunciation: [pustɒ]) is a steppe biome on the Great Hungarian Plain (Alföld) around the River Tisza in the eastern part of Hungary as well as on the western part of Hungary and in the Austrian Burgenland. The Hungarian puszta is an enclave of the Eurasian Steppe.
The word means "plains", a vast wilderness of grass and bushes. The name comes from an adjective of the same form, meaning "bare, empty, bereft".
The climate is continental. Landscape is widely cultivated, the original Puszta landscape now being found only in a few places, for example in Hortobágy.
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