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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Example Sentences

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

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To the north, General Rodion Malinovsky was stabbing through the Transylvanian Alps to the great plain of Hungary.

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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.

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Brass� is beautifully situated on the slopes of the Transylvanian Alps, in a narrow valley, shut in by mountains, and presenting only one opening on the north-west towards the Burzen plain.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various