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Alps: Encyclopedia - Alps
The Alps is the name for one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east, through Ita...
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Alps: Encyclopedia Ii - Alps - Geography
Alps - Subdivision.
The Alps are generally divided into Western Alps and Eastern Alps. The division is along the line between Lake Cons...
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Alps: Encyclopedia Ii - Alps - Flora
A natural vegetation limit with altitude is given by the presence of the chief deciduous trees — oak, beech, ash and sycamore maple. Th...
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Alps: Encyclopedia Ii - Alps - Political History
Little is known of the early dwellers in the Alps, save from the scanty accounts preserved by Roman and Greek historians and geographers....
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Alps: Encyclopedia Ii - Alps - Geology
The Alps arose as a result of the pressure exerted on sediments of the Tethys Ocean basin as its Mesozoic and early Cenozoic strata were ...
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