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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

The waters, I need scarcely add, belong to the class of alkalo-saline, and take their rise among the Erzgebirge, or Ore Mountains, hard by.

From Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II by Gleig, G. R. (George Robert)

Among these are my humorous short stories, my village-tales from the Ore Mountains, and a few other things which still lie hidden in the newspapers, without being collected in books.

From My Life and My Efforts by Olesch, Gunther

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