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Ore Mountains

British  
/ ɔː /

plural noun

  1. another name for the Erzgebirge

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The town, surrounded by the Ore Mountains, appears suddenly, its train platform hugged by buildings of cement, steel, and glass.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 13, 2017

Hobby treasure hunters have launched expensive searches for it across Germany, from lake bottoms to mines in the eastern Ore Mountains.

From Reuters • Mar. 3, 2015

First, I wrote humorous short stories, then "Village-Tales from the Ore Mountains".

From My Life and My Efforts by Olesch, Gunther

You cross the fertile country of Franconia, a wide curve gives you a fine view of Nuremberg, and then you ascend towards the pass that divides the Ore Mountains from the Bohemian Forest.

From From a Terrace in Prague by Baker, Lieut.-Col. B. Granville

Its principal metalliferous sites are the Hartz Mountains, on the borders of Hanover and Prussia, and the Erzgebirge or Ore Mountains, which separate Saxony from Bohemia.

From The Mines and its Wonders by Kingston, William Henry Giles

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