- 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. James Wood. 1907.