Carnic Alps

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[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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Carnic Alps

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 Charles Kingsley

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 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Culm fossils appear in the Carnic Alps, in the Balkans and parts of Spain, also in Spitzbergen and part of New Guinea.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various

But she dare not advance and leave the passes through the Tyrolean and the Carnic Alps open for Germany and Austria to pour troops in against her flank and rear.

From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 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 Francis Trevelyan Miller