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

Geographers style this the Moravian Gate.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

The valleys of the Eger and the Elbe form distinct breaks in the environment of Bohemia, and the Sudetes on the north-east of Bohemia and Moravia are even more clearly divided from the Carpathians by the valley of the upper Oder, the Moravian Gate, as it is called, which forms the natural line of communication between the south-east of Prussia and Vienna.

From Project Gutenberg

The Carpathians curve for 1,000 miles like a huge sickle round the Hungarian plain from the deep trench of the Danube, known as the Iron Gates, to what is called the Moravian Gate, beyond which lie the Bohemian mountains.

From Project Gutenberg