The Danubian Hills (Slovak: Podunajská pahorkatina), also translated as Danubian Upland, is the north-eastern part of the Danubian Lowland in Slovakia, often appearing as low rolling hills of prevalently eolic origin.
It lies between the Danubian Flat and the Danube in the south, the Little Carpathians in the west and all the other Western Carpathians in the north and east. The border with the Danubian Flat runs approximately along the line Bratislava â Senec â Sereàâ Nové Zámky â Patince.
The area has varied rocks (clay, gravel, sands), which are covered by Quaternary sediments (loess) and very fertile soils (black and brown earths).
Major towns of the area are Trnava, TopoþÃÂany, Nitra, Levice, Dudince and à  túrovo.
The Váh, Nitra, à ½itava, Hron and Ipeþ rivers divide the area into the following 11 geomorphological parts (from the west to the east):
The above-mentioned river plains have rich subterranean reservoirs of water. Other important water deposits include the deposits in Dudince.
The area features many small-scale protected areas. The communities of the marshes are protected e.g. in ParÃÂà ¾ske moÃÂiare ("ParÃÂà ¾ Marshes"). Various types of sand prairie or forest prairie vegetation can be found here (ÃÂenkovská step, ChotÃÂnske piesky). Also, protected residues or original thermopile oak groves (DubnÃÂk, Và Âà ¡ok) are situated here.