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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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Germany's Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel is also said to have opposed the Pindus push, recommended instead a sudden naval encirclement with multiple landing parties, such as Germany sprang on Norway.

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There the Greeks fought hard, using the same tactics of cross fire as had proved so deadly against the Italians in the Pindus Mountains.

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In the cloudy Pindus mountains, high above the sunny olive groves of central Greece, hard-bitten guerrillas sang the exploits of their hardest-bitten chiefs.

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For the rest of the campaign the Imperial force had to stand virtually alone, since the main force of the Greeks was facing the Italians far across the Pindus Mountains to the west.

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The river Pindus is now, according to Dodwell, the Aniani.129.See p.

From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller

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