Moravian Gate

American  

noun

1. a mountain pass between the Sudeten Mountains and the Tatra range of the Carpathians, leading from S Poland into N Moravia in the NE Czech Republic.

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Moravian Gate British  

noun

1. a low mountain pass linking S Poland and Moravia (the Czech Republic), between the SE Sudeten Mountains and the W Carpathian Mountains

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Example Sentences

Many have come from the Moravian Gate, a valley that connects the Danube valley to the north European plain, which acted as a conduit for migrating animals and for their predators too.

From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2013

Last week, forestalling a possible German sortie through the Moravian Gate against the flank of their northern armies, the Russians were attacking the gate themselves.

From Time Magazine Archive

This was important because Teschen flanks the Moravian Gate, the No. 1 pass into the natural fortress of Bohemia.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the west it faces greater danger from attack across the German border in the area between Breslau and the Moravian Gate.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Teutonic Marcomanni and Quadi were in Bohemia long before the Czechs came in through the Moravian Gate in the sixth century.

From The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Stoddard, Lothrop