Carnic Alps

American  

[kahr-nik] / ˈkɑr nɪk /

plural noun

1. a mountain range in S Austria and N Italy, part of the E Alps. Highest peak, Kellerwand, 9,217 feet (2,809 meters).

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Example Sentences

The Danube once crossed, between them and Constantinople was nothing but the rich rolling land of Turkey; between them and Rome nothing but the easy passes of the Carnic Alps, Laybach to Trieste. 

From Roman and the Teuton by Kingsley, Charles

My second day was devoted to a view of the Italian mountain warfare in the Carnic Alps.

From A Visit to Three Fronts June 1916 by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

The country south of the Drave is occupied by several groups of the southern limestone zone, namely the Carnic Alps, the Julian Alps, the Karawankas and the Steiner Alps.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various

A further offensive was directed across the Carnic Alps by way of the Kreuzberg Pass down the Seoten Valley to Innichen and Toblach on the Pusterthal railway.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Miller, Francis Trevelyan

July 12—Austrians are making desperate attempts to penetrate Italy through the Carnic Alps, relying chiefly upon night attacks, but all attacks have thus far been repulsed.

From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 by Various