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Carpathian Mountains (mountain system) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 47 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 47.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 025 30 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 25.5000 decimal degrees |
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Note: This mountain system comprises mountain ranges of the eastern and western Beskids, the Tatras, the Little Carpathians, the White Carpathians, and the southern Carpathians, which are also called the Transylvanian Alps. Its actual geologic limits are the Vienna Basin and the structural hollow of the Leitha Gate in Austria to the west and the structural depression of the Timok River in Yugoslavia in the south. Many battles were fought here during WW I and WW II. |
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| Carpathian Mountains (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Carpathians (C,V,English,U,N)
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| Carpaţii (C,V)
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| Munţii Carpaţi (C,V)
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| Karpaten (C,V,German-P,U,N)
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| Karpátok (C,V)
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| Karpaty (C,V)
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| Carpati, Muntii (C,V)
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| Muntii Carpati (C,V)
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| Carpates (H,V)
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| Карпати (C,V)
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