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Carpathians

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Noun1.CarpathiansCarpathians - a mountain range in central Europe that extends from Slovakia and southern Poland southeastward through western Ukraine to northeastern Romania; a popular resort area
Carpathian Mountains
Slovak Republic, Slovakia - a landlocked republic in central Europe; separated from the Czech Republic in 1993
Romania, Roumania, Rumania - a republic in southeastern Europe with a short coastline on the Black Sea
Poland, Polska, Republic of Poland - a republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II
Ukraine, Ukrayina - a republic in southeastern Europe; formerly a European soviet; the center of the original Russian state which came into existence in the ninth century
Transylvanian Alps - a range of the southern Carpathian Mountains extending across central Romania
Translations
Carpathians [kɑːˈpeɪθɪənz] NPL the Carpathians → los montes Cárpatos
Carpathians
pl (Geog) → Karpaten pl


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Beyond the green swelling hills of the Mittel Land rose mighty slopes of forest up to the lofty steeps of the Carpathians themselves.
Dracula by Stoker, Bram View in context
This mountain separated the Apennines from the Carpathians.
Round The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context
He was a mountaineer of the eastern range of the Carpathians, and the vessel sunk the night be- fore in Eastbay was the Hamburg emigrant-ship
Amy Foster by Conrad, Joseph View in context
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