Thuringian Forest

American  

noun

1. a forested mountain region in central Germany: a resort area.

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Thuringian Forest British  

noun

1. German name: Thüringer Wald. a forested mountainous region in E central Germany, rising over 900 m (3000 ft)

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Thuringian Forest

What all of us, from the Thuringian Forest to Sheboygan, must realize is that to survive we need, along with armor, A-bombs and valuta, sisu.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her thoughts often recurred to her girlhood in the old castle in the Thuringian Forest; and she liked to hear me speak of Chriemhild and Ulrich, and their infant boy.

From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles

For all his haste, Napoleon, with 180,000 men, was nearing the Thuringian Forest before the Prussian troops left Berlin.

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

Then, accompanied by some of his relations, he took the road through Schweina, past the Castle of Altenstein, and then across the back of the Thuringian Forest to Waltershausen and Gotha.

From Life of Luther by Julius Koestlin

To the east the Thuringian Forest is connected by the plateau of the Frankenwald with the Fichtelgebirge.

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

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