Sudetes

British  

/ suːˈdiːtiːz /

plural noun

1. a mountain range in E central Europe, along the N border of the Czech Republic, extending into Germany and Poland: rich in minerals, esp coal. Highest peak: Schneekoppe, 1603 m (5259 ft)

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Example Sentences

The valleys of the Eger and the Elbe form distinct breaks in the environment of Bohemia, and the Sudetes on the north-east of Bohemia and Moravia are even more clearly divided from the Carpathians by the valley of the upper Oder, the Moravian Gate, as it is called, which forms the natural line of communication between the south-east of Prussia and Vienna.

From Project Gutenberg

From the Sudetes Mountains many of them take the name of Sudetendeutsch, and leader of the Sudetendeutsch Partei is pudgy but strenuous Herr Konrad Henlein.

From Time Magazine Archive

Inhabited largely by Germans, the whole length of the fence has come to be known as the Sudeten region, although the Sudetes Mountains form only the northern side of the cup.

From Time Magazine Archive

From an orographic point of view, Bohemia constitutes amongst the Austrian provinces a separate massif, bordered on three sides by mountain ranges: on the S.W. by the B�hmerwald or Bohemian Forest; on the N.W. by the Erzgebirge or Ore Mountains; and on the N.E. by the Riesengebirge or Giant Mountains and other ranges of the Sudetes.

From Project Gutenberg

The B�hmerwald, which, like its parallel range, the 122 Sudetes, has a general direction from S.E. to N.W., is divided by the pass of Neumark into two parts.

From Project Gutenberg