The Alpine foothills, or Prealps ( German: Voralpen; French: Préalpes; Italian: Prealpi; Slovene: Predalpe), may refer generally to any foothills at the base of the Alps in Europe. [1] They are the transition zone between the High Alps and the Swiss Plateau and the Bavarian Alpine Foreland in the north, as well as to the Pannonian Basin ( Alpokalja) in the east, the Padan Plain in the south and the Rhone Valley in the west. [2]
The Alpine foothills comprise: [3] [4]