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Pindus

[ pin-duhs ]

noun

  1. a mountain range in central Greece: highest peak, 7,665 feet (2,335 meters).


Pindus

/ ˈpɪndəs /

noun

  1. a mountain range in central Greece between Epirus and Thessaly. Highest peak: Mount Smólikas, 2633 m (8639 ft) Modern Greek namePíndhosˈpinðɔs
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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An archipelago of camps was spread across the country from a barren hillside above Greece’s biggest oil refinery, to the remote villages in the Pindus mountains of north-east Greece and a clutch of polluted and unsafe former industrial sites around Thessaloniki.

The palm, the laurel, and all the fountains of Pindus, Helicon and Parnassus, were sacred to the muses.

Eugenio Now in the bow'rs of Tuscororah hills, As once on Pindus all the muses stray, New Theban bards high soaring reach the skies And swim along thro' azure deeps of air.

Pindus, but Athenians and Arcadians also boasted themselves of autochthonous race, inhabiting a country wherein no man had preceded their ancestors.

Pindus range to the Gulf of Corinth.

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