Transylvanian Alps

American  

plural noun

1. a mountain range in S Romania, forming a SW extension of the Carpathian Mountains. Highest peak, Mt. Negoiul, 8,345 feet (2,544 meters).

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Transylvanian Alps British  

/ ˌtrænsɪlˈveɪnɪən /

plural noun

1. a mountain range in S Romania; a SW extension of the Carpathian Mountains. Highest peak: Mount Negoiu, 2548 m (8360 ft)

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Transylvanian Alps

In the village of Palmagyu, Rumania, in the Transylvanian Alps, peasants stood in idle groups last week and talked in proverbs of the devil and money.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Germans under Falkenhayn and Mackensen had little difficulty in storming the passes in the Transylvanian Alps and the Iron Gate to overrun Rumania.

From Time Magazine Archive

Set in the foothills of Rumania's Transylvanian Alps 35 miles from Bucharest, Ploesti was called by Winston Churchill "the taproot of German might."

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Wealthy Rumanians, spending the war at fashionable Sinaia in the Transylvanian Alps, entertained wounded U.S. flyers who had been shot down over Ploesti.

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The Roumanians had defended, or attempted to defend, this road by mounting armoured guns on the crest of one of the mountain ranges in the Transylvanian Alps.

From Germany, The Next Republic? by Ackerman, Carl W. (Carl William)