<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Geology </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Orogeny </Th> <Td> Alpine orogeny </Td> </Tr> <P> Bavarian Alps (German: Bayerische Alpen) is a summarizing term of several mountain ranges of the Northern Limestone Alps in the German state of Bavaria . </P> <P> The term in its wider sense refers to that part of the Eastern Alps that lies on Bavarian state territory . However it is traditionally understood that the Bavarian Alps are only those ranges between the rivers Lech and Saalach (Altbayern). In this narrower sense, the Allgäu Alps in Swabia, which have only been part of Bavaria in more recent times, and the Berchtesgaden Alps in the east are not considered part of the Bavarian Alps . </P>

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