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

The epicenter of the quake was roughly 100 miles north of Bucharest, in the Vrancea mountain range of the breathtakingly beautiful Transylvanian Alps.

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."

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

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.

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The next day the Hungarian plain came to an end and the Transylvanian Alps drew nearer and nearer.

From The Poor Plutocrats by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)