SUDETIC MOUNTAINS

SUDETIC MOUNTAINS
   stretch in irregular broken masses and subsidiary chains for 120 m. across South-East Germany, separating Bohemia and Moravia from Saxony and Prussian Silesia, and forming a link between the Carpathians and mountains of Franconia; highest and central position is known as the RIESENGEBIRGE (q.v.); Schneekoppe is the culminating point of the range.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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