Transylvanian Alps

American

plural noun

a mountain range in S Romania, forming a SW extension of the Carpathian Mountains. Highest peak, Mt. Negoiul, 8,345 feet (2,544 meters).

Transylvanian Alps British

/ ˌtrænsɪlˈveɪnɪən /

plural noun

a mountain range in S Romania; a SW extension of the Carpathian Mountains. Highest peak: Mount Negoiu, 2548 m (8360 ft)

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Just looking at the multitude of hairpin turns along the Transfagarasan, a paved mountain road loop-de-looping over the Transylvanian Alps in Romania, is enough to give you butterflies.

From New York Times

Mr Barone is not new to racing hairy mountain roads, having set another speed record last year on the Transfagarasan mountain road in the Transylvanian Alps in Romania.

From BBC

Brass� is beautifully situated on the slopes of the Transylvanian Alps, in a narrow valley, shut in by mountains, and presenting only one opening on the north-west towards the Burzen plain.

From Project Gutenberg

Walachia, in the south, contains the southern part of the Transylvanian Alps—called the Southern Carpathians by Romanian geographers—and the lowlands that extend between them and the Danube River.

From Project Gutenberg

Needless to say, these flowers are very rare, but I have heard of their having been found, comparatively recently, both in the Transylvanian Alps and the Balkans.

From Project Gutenberg

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