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Pindus

American  
[pin-duhs] / ˈpɪn dəs /

noun

  1. a mountain range in central Greece: highest peak, 7,665 feet (2,335 meters).


Pindus British  
/ ˈpɪndəs /

noun

  1. Modern Greek name: Píndhos.  a mountain range in central Greece between Epirus and Thessaly. Highest peak: Mount Smólikas, 2633 m (8639 ft)

"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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With this tactic they pushed the enemy back on the central Pindus front.

From Time Magazine Archive

The British-Greek line, which held together well, fell back to shield Larissa and Yanina in the Pindus Mountains, then back to the narrowing of the peninsula between Lamia and Arta.

From Time Magazine Archive

From rugged Epirus eastward through the towering Pindus range to the plains of Thessaly, Greek met Greek.

From Time Magazine Archive

Markos' stronghold is the range of the Pindus Mountains, extending like a probing finger from Albania and Yugoslavia into the heart of Greece.

From Time Magazine Archive

On Ossa's top explores For plants, and seeks what lofty Pelion bears; Othrys, and Pindus, and Olympus huge.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.

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