Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A mountain pass of central Europe between the Sudetes and the western Carpathian Mountains. It was long a strategic trade and communications route.
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Examples
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Geographynote: landlocked; strategically located astride some of oldest and most significant land routes in Europe; Moravian Gate is a traditional military corridor between the North European Plain and the Danube in central Europe
Czech Republic 2008
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Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt Bantam, 658 pp., $25.95 begins in the Islamic year 783, 1405 by the Christian calendar, with a scouting party of the Mongol conqueror Temur crossing west through the Moravian Gate to discover a land decimated by plague.
Archive 2008-10-01 Gregory Feeley 2008
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Czech Republiclandlocked; strategically located astride some of oldest and most significant land routes in Europe; Moravian Gate is a traditional military corridor between the North European Plain and the Danube in central Europe
Geography-note 2008
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Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt Bantam, 658 pp., $25.95 begins in the Islamic year 783, 1405 by the Christian calendar, with a scouting party of the Mongol conqueror Temur crossing west through the Moravian Gate to discover a land decimated by plague.
Robinson, Le Guin, Clute, Egan Gregory Feeley 2008
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Geography - note: landlocked; strategically located astride some of oldest and most significant land routes in Europe; Moravian Gate is a traditional military corridor between the North European Plain and the Danube in central Europe
The 2004 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Czech Republic landlocked; strategically located astride some of oldest and most significant land routes in Europe; Moravian Gate is
The 2004 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Note: landlocked; strategically located astride some of oldest and most significant land routes in Europe; Moravian Gate is a traditional military corridor between the North European Plain and the Danube in central Europe
The 1994 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Czech Republic landlocked; strategically located astride some of oldest and most significant land routes in Europe; Moravian Gate is
The 2007 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Geography - note: landlocked; strategically located astride some of oldest and most significant land routes in Europe; Moravian Gate is a traditional military corridor between the North European Plain and the
The 2000 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Geography -- note: landlocked; strategically located astride some of oldest and most significant land routes in Europe; Moravian Gate is
The 1999 CIA Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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