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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

These generally show in their forms the craggy and stony character of the Dinaric Alps, rising perpendicularly from the water on the side of the prevailing wind, and without vegetation.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)