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Tatra Mountains

American  
[tah-truh] / ˈtɑ trə /

plural noun

  1. a mountain range in N Slovakia and S Poland: a part of the central Carpathian Mountains. Highest peak, Gerlachovka, 8,737 feet (2,663 meters).


Tatra Mountains British  
/ ˈtɑːtrə, ˈtæt- /

plural noun

  1. Also called: High Tatra.  a mountain range along the border between Slovakia and Poland, extending for about 64 km (40 miles): the highest range of the central Carpathians. Highest peak: Gerlachovka, 2663 m (8737 ft)

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The one that had watched over me for eight decades: above the pallet in my hideaway in the Tatra Mountains, propped against my metal bunk bed in the Austrian displaced-persons camp, in the third-class berth of the USS Saratoga buffeting me across the Atlantic, in the Orchard Street rooming house where Adek and I first lived, in the first house I bought, and the last house I sold, and finally to my room here in the Antechamber of Death, on the wall next to my bed.

From Literature

Vlhova crashed and tore ligaments in her right knee in Saturday’s giant slalom near her hometown in the Tatra mountains.

From Seattle Times

Subfreezing temperatures, frost and snow have been reported in the Tatra Mountains, which run through Poland and Slovakia.

From Washington Times

Mirga-Tas’s work space is a single 800-square-foot room in an out-of-town commercial block near the town of Nowy Targ, in Poland’s Tatra Mountains.

From New York Times

In Slovakia's Zilina region, authorities called on people to stay indoors and avoid non-essential travel, especially to the north of the country, as winds reached more than 120 km per hour in the Tatra mountains.

From Reuters