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Alps (mountain system) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 46 25 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 46.4167 decimal degrees |
| Long: 010 00 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 10.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Huge system of parallel ranges that separates Italian peninsula from rest of Europe; originally formed by collision of African and European tectonic plates; various passes through the mountains have historically been of strategic importance for trade and war. |
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| Alps (preferred,C,O,English-P,U,N)
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| Alps (Romansh,U)
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| Alpen (C,V,German-P,U,N)
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| Alpes (C,V,French-P,U,N)
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............ | also was Roman name |
| Alpi (C,V,Italian-P,U,N)
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| Alpe (C,V,Slovene,U)
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| Alpes, Les (C,V)
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| Alpine (C,O,English,U,A)
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| Les Alpes (C,V,French,U)
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| na hAlpa (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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