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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Example Sentences

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

The Dinaric Alps which cut off that plain from the Adriatic Sea and Mussolini are not the highest mountains in Europe but some of the most rugged and impassable.

From Time Magazine Archive

Better known is the Kerka, which rises in the Dinaric Alps and flows south-westward to the Adriatic.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various