Dinaric Alps

American  

plural noun

1. a range of the Alps paralleling the eastern Adriatic coast from Slovenia to northern Albania: extends across western Croatia, and most of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. Highest peak, 8,714 feet (2,656 meters).

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Dinaric Alps British  

/ daɪ-, dɪˈnærɪk /

plural noun

1. a mountain range in W Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Serbia: connected with the main Alpine system by the Julian Alps. Highest peak: Troglav, 1913 m (6277 ft)

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Dinaric Alps

Brown bears: 17,000 of them, spread through Scandinavia, the Dinaric Alps, the Carpathian mountains, Bulgaria, Greece, Cantabria, the Alps.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 24, 2020

The turquoise Tara River slices through these Dinaric Alps, creating Europe’s deepest canyon at some 4,260 feet, and thrilling white-water paddlers.

From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2018

The Dinaric Alps, which held many of the events from the 1984 Winter Games, form a dramatic backdrop to a city with an abundance of ethnic and architectural diversity.

From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2016

Swiftly De Luce was passed from hand to hand, always upward, away from the sea, into the Dinaric Alps.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dinaric Alps, a range of the Eastern Alps in Austria, runs SE. and parallel with the Adriatic, connecting the Julian Alps with the Balkans.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin