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Fichtelgebirge

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[fik-tl-guh-bir-guh] / ˈfɪk tl gəˌbɪr gə /

noun

  1. a mountain range in E central Germany, near the Czech border. Highest peak, Schneeberg, 3,447 feet (1,051 meters).


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West and north-west of the Alps are the Cevennes, Jura, and Vosges; north and north-east, the Harz, the Th�ringerwald Mountains, the Fichtelgebirge, the Erzgebirge and B�hmerwaldgebirge.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various

Fichtelgebirge, a mountain chain in North-East Bavaria, so called from its having once been covered with pines, Fichtel meaning a pine.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin

In the north-east the Fichtelgebirge connects itself directly with the Erzgebirge, which forms the northern boundary of Bohemia.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various

Ranges of less elevation bordering on or belonging to the country are the Fichtelgebirge in the north-east, the Frankenwald, Rh�ngebirge, and Spessart in the north, and the Steigerwald and Franconian Jura in the middle.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various

Though written in the year of the storming of the Tuileries it shows the prose-poet of the Fichtelgebirge as yet untouched by the political convulsions of the time.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

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