Dinaric
Americanadjective
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of or relating to the Alpine region of the Balkan Peninsula, from Slovenia to northern Albania and extending across western Coatia, and most of Bosnia and Herzegovna, and Montenegro.
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(no longer in technical use) of, relating to, or characteristic of a Caucasoid subracial type with a long face and round, often flattened head, found chiefly in eastern Europe, especially in former Yugoslavia and Albania.
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Brown bears: 17,000 of them, spread through Scandinavia, the Dinaric Alps, the Carpathian mountains, Bulgaria, Greece, Cantabria, the Alps.
From The Guardian • Nov. 24, 2020
The turquoise Tara River slices through these Dinaric Alps, creating Europe’s deepest canyon at some 4,260 feet, and thrilling white-water paddlers.
From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2018
The Dinaric Alps, which held many of the events from the 1984 Winter Games, form a dramatic backdrop to a city with an abundance of ethnic and architectural diversity.
From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2016
The Dinaric Alps which cut off that plain from the Adriatic Sea and Mussolini are not the highest mountains in Europe but some of the most rugged and impassable.
From Time Magazine Archive
For three hundred miles down the Dalmatian coast not one large river, scarcely a considerable stream, descends from the too closely towering Dinaric mountains to the sea.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
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