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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A range of the southern Carpathian Mountains extending across central Romania and rising to 2,544 m (8,346 ft).
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- noun a range of the southern Carpathian Mountains extending across central Romania
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But with the Allied conquest of North Africa, Ploesti, lying on a broad plain at the foot of the Transylvanian Alps, thirty-five miles north of the capital city of Bucharest, could be reached by long-range bombers flying from desert fields that had been used to chase Erwin Rommel from the sand seas of Libya.
Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006
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But with the Allied conquest of North Africa, Ploesti, lying on a broad plain at the foot of the Transylvanian Alps, thirty-five miles north of the capital city of Bucharest, could be reached by long-range bombers flying from desert fields that had been used to chase Erwin Rommel from the sand seas of Libya.
Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006
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