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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Once it has cut through the Transylvanian Alps, the Danube deepens, can float steamers that come in from the Black Sea laden with produce and oil.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

One major line crosses the Transylvanian Alps to serve the Bucharest area, and another crosses the Moldavian Carpathians through Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej.

From Area Handbook for Romania by Donald W. Bernier