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Ore Mountains

British  
/ ɔː /

plural noun

  1. another name for the Erzgebirge

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The town, surrounded by the Ore Mountains, appears suddenly, its train platform hugged by buildings of cement, steel, and glass.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 13, 2017

Hobby treasure hunters have launched expensive searches for it across Germany, from lake bottoms to mines in the eastern Ore Mountains.

From Reuters • Mar. 3, 2015

You cross the fertile country of Franconia, a wide curve gives you a fine view of Nuremberg, and then you ascend towards the pass that divides the Ore Mountains from the Bohemian Forest.

From From a Terrace in Prague by Baker, Lieut.-Col. B. Granville

First, I wrote humorous short stories, then "Village-Tales from the Ore Mountains".

From My Life and My Efforts by Olesch, Gunther

Among these are my humorous short stories, my village-tales from the Ore Mountains, and a few other things which still lie hidden in the newspapers, without being collected in books.

From My Life and My Efforts by Olesch, Gunther

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