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Sentence Examples Among the genres to become established north and south of the Alps was portrait painting. The Dinaric Alps that cover this area also extend southward into Serbia and Montenegro. The great outdoors of the Japanese Alps is there to greet you with spectacular views and some still unexplored areas. It tells the tale of a long march from the Nile to the Alps over three thousand hard-fought miles. There are cases of divers getting the bends as they returned through the Alps after diving the Mediterranean. You'll rest your tired keister at night in some of the Alps most inviting resorts and inns. The highest summer ski area in the Alps, in the folds of these mountains, can be reached via the highest cable car in Europe, from Zermatt. Leaning into a 90 mph wind, a graph charts every movement, every wobble, in a trajectory that resembles the Alps. The cool temperate climate of the Australian Alps in the southeast of the continent attracts skiers in winter and walkers in summer. Elsewhere in the Alps, where the flooding began, residents were assessing the damage and cleaning up. Trieste sits on the Italian riviera, near the Slovenian border and at the foot of the Alps, terraced with peach coloured villas. Dishes of sliced waxy potatoes baked with cheese are popular all over the Alps. A Dart River jetboat safari runs from Glenorchy 35 kilometres into the Alps. By early March their advanced guard had crossed the Alps, and an Othonian expedition to southern Gaul achieved little. We will spend quality time on the sunny side of the Alps, with craggy bright-white mountains jutting out of smooth grassy meadows. The couple contentedly settled down for the winter in a small town in the Alps. He's had to cross the Alps with a backpack strapped to him that weighs a ton. After their release, the vultures are monitored by biologists and a network of observers across the Alps. This rare work of porphyry, limestone, serpentine and onyx is unique north of the Alps. Even those who have climbed in the Alps or the lower Himalayas, find it hard to understand the appeal of such a brutal and capricious mountain. Show More Sentences No, really, we've been working hard, beavering away while Jane, who normally occupies this slot, has sloped off on the piste in Les Alps. The Glacier Express is the most famous of several rail journeys that plough through the snow-encrusted Alps. The competition was held at the biathlon rifle range at Whiskey Flat, near Mt Hotham, in the Victorian Alps last month. Europe's stop-start ski season roared back into life last week, with heavy snowfalls and freezing temperatures affecting almost all of the Alps. The track follows the river to its source, traverses the Southern Alps and ends on the West Coast, south of Karamea. Holidaymakers come back year after year and, amid the splendours of the Alps, they insist on bourgeois comforts and good Bavarian cooking. Across those Alps, in the 6th century, came a Germanic tribe called the Lombards. The castle is set on a forested hillside above a small lake, and is surrounded by a magnificent panorama of the Tyrolean Alps. To get to the greatest ski run in the Alps, take the cable car to the top of Aiguille du Midi. We were at the Olympic bobsleigh run at the village of Le Roche, just below the ski resort of La Plagne in the French Alps. Yesterday's excursion into the Alps, just one week into this year's centenary Tour, came unusually early. The base of the system and the subdivision into six stages was originally recognized in the marine facies of the Southern Alps. One could object that the countries bordering the Alps are richer and more expensive. Although the frequency of avalanches is smaller in comparison to the Alps, the plants are still exposed to heavy snow and avalanches. In the past it took months, if not years, for a papal legate to travel over the Alps to deliver authoritative Roman decisions. He spent a week crossing the Bernese Alps, traveling largely on foot, mule, and horseback. The Transylvanian Alps in the central region contain the highest peak, Mount Moldoveanu. Within a few minutes, the sun had disappeared behind the tree-lined Swabian Alps. Their digestive tract is adapted to break down fairly large bones such as the femur of the chamois, the small, goatlike antelope of the Alps. Until then the Alps had been viewed from afar by poets and painters or been used by local people hunting chamois. Show More Sentences A biology teacher from the Swiss Alps spoiled the party by outsprinting the favourite Michellie Jones to the Opera House finish line. It was a long distance haul, not like a sprint, which is what we will be doing when we compete with our dogs in the Savoie Alps in January. High in the Alps is a monument raised in honour of a faithful guide who perished while ascending a peak to rescue a stranded tourist. Some racers struggled up the final climb, even though it was a molehill compared to the high mountain passes that must be scaled in the Alps. Our scrambles in the Alps eventually, albeit circuitously, lead us southward to Italy. The Thirty Years' War inhibited development of the Singspiel and gave additional scope to Italian works from across the Alps. White clouds cling to lofty mountain peaks, which rise vertically from out of glacial basins, stretching all the way back to the Southern Alps. But the river, carrying snowmelt from the Alps, was ice-cold, and its waters were fast-flowing. Nestled in the pristine Alps, its resorts provide great skiing in the lap of luxury, but Saint Moritz isn't just about reckless excess. I just wanted to stay here in this bucolic meadow high in the Carinthian Alps thinking about how much fun I was having skiing in Austria. Wide shots of the men on the mountain are used, while actors play the pair in close-up scenes filmed in the European Alps. The mountains looming far to my right, the West Alps told me we had crossed into France. In spring the flowerage of the apple trees is in vast contrast to the snow covered Alps which is a magnificent sight. He is known for skiing big alpine faces, couloirs, and even serious ice climbs, from the Alps to the Himalayas. The next closest occurrences of this gasteropod are in the Alps of Central Europe and east of the Urals in Siberia. A series of avalanches in the Alps earlier in the weekend killed five people, including three youths who were skiing outside authorised slopes. Here, sheer limestone cliffs tower over gentle pastures and provide what many people believe is the finest scenery in the Alps. Far from the hustle and grit of Berlin, it follows a quartet of young Germans lazing their lives away in a picturesque ski town in the Alps. Failing this there is always the marvellous views of the French Alps to look forward to. During our university vacations, we took jobs as herds people in the Alps, running after cattle for three months out of the year and sleeping in rickety huts and stables. Show More Sentences The Apuan Alps and the encroaching Apennine foothills of Garfagnana are a recurrent theme in the landscapes and townscapes he produces in his top floor studio. And here's a shot of the Swedish postman moblogger in the Alps. Two of the works that they acquired were bought as reductions of the previously mentioned Napoleon at Fontainebleau and Napoleon Crossing the Alps. Anywhere in the Southern Alps it is easy to feel as Samuel Butler's hero did in Erewhon, that the high pass at the head of the valley is the gateway to some mysterious land. And so the world was shocked and saddened to hear about his severe brain injury in the Alps last Sunday morning. Subirer, for example, is a small bitter pear that grows in the Alps, near Lech. My first encounter with a rare herd of red deer wintering in the Austrian Alps came after a four-hour ascent on skis through snowed-in forests and steep terrain. Their vista of the snow-capped Andes suggests the Bavarian Alps and the view from Berchtesgaden. Val Pellice produces a speciality cheese, the origins of which stem from the early Middle Ages when occasional Saracenic groups ventured into the Alps. If the Alps were strongly manned, the movement for independence would gather way and the Gallic provinces decide the limits of their dominion at will. New Zealand's geographical features vary from the Southern Alps and fjords on South Island to the volcanoes, hot springs, and geysers on North Island. The long-term chart of the tech-heavy NASDAQ Composite Index looks like the profile of an Alps stage of the Tour de France. Braving the icy torrents of white water in the Victorian Alps, personnel from the School of Artillery discovered the true meaning of adventurous training. Shoot a full frame of the Swiss Alps, or zoom in on your friend yodeling. Make an early start and allow ample time if you want to see the best reflections in Lake Matheson of Mount Cook and Mount Tasman, impressive peaks in the Southern Alps. When Dad had a sabbatical year in 1962, he and Mom took the four of us children to live in Europe, and we spent a summer in Bavaria, in the foothills of the Alps. A hiker told a French newspaper how he came across the bodies of four people gunned down in a forest car park in the French Alps. The Swiss have for long tempted Indian film-makers to use the Alps and other picturesque locales as the backdrop for romantic interludes in Bollywood films. This was the first day in the Alps and on the top of Col de Ramaz they had almost three inches of rain when a deluge came down on them for a full forty five minutes. Possibly this was the time of exhumation of the Augenstein peneplain in the Northern Calcareous Alps, formed during Priabonian-Early Kiscellian time. Show More Sentences These are the Alps near the borderline between Italy and Austria. Montebelluna is a small town in the foothills of the Italian Alps and is home to a number of companies that make hiking shoes, ski boots and in-line skates. The lawyer was skiing off-piste in the resort of Verbier in the Alps when he fell some 300 metres after losing his footing and ended up in a snow gully. In 1790 he went on a walking tour of France, the Alps, and Italy. The Italian election was a farrago of farce and consequence that reaches far beyond the Alps and the Apennines. The physical environment is characterized by a chain of mountains, a densely urbanized plateau, and the Alps range, which forms a barrier to the south. Going to the northern parts of the country or even the Swiss Alps for gambolling in the snow is soon going to be a thing of the past for Hyderabadis. Siegendorf is a small village in Burgenland about forty miles south of Vienna where the great Hungarian plain rises up to meet the foothills of the Alps. It controlled colonies from Spain to Turkey, from the Alps to the Sahara. A separate branch, the Apuan Alps, goes to the southwest bordering the coast south of La Spezia. An ice sheet formed in New Zealand, covering all of the Southern Alps, where at least three glacial advances can be distinguished. By this time Hannibal's brother Hasdrubal Barca sought to cross the Alps into Italy and join his brother with a second army. This left the armies on the Pyrenees free to march east and reinforce the armies on the Alps, and the combined army overran Piedmont. A BRITISH off-piste skier has been killed in an avalanche in the French Alps, French officials said. Several proglacial lakes have also formed in recent decades at the end of glaciers on the eastern side of New Zealand's Southern Alps. Where conditions are harsher, such as in the Alps, they emerge as late as early June. Pannonia Superior included the western fringe of the basin as well as part of the Eastern Alps, as far as Virunum. This is now most evident in the Southern Alps, formed by compression of the crust beside the Alpine Fault. The Alps were millions of years old before the Apennines rose from the sea. Both the Alps and the Apennines contain primarily sedimentary rock resulting from sedimentation of the ancient Tethys Sea in the Mesozoic. Show More Sentences The Alps and the Apennines were always separated by this trench and were never part of the same system. One of the photographs from 1958 shows a father and three children posed in front of the Bernese Alps in Switzerland. Next morning, we took a cable car up to the Gemmi pass, a nick in the Bernese Alps that connects the Valais and Bern cantons. Perched at over 6,000 feet in the Bernese Alps some six miles from Gstaad Palace, the Igloo Village of Saanerslochgrat is made entirely of snow. Five skiers were killed in avalanches in the French Alps yesterday, buried under snowslides as they skied off-piste, police said. I sampled a deliciously refreshing Pinot Blanc 2012 from Merano in the Italian Alps, or as the German-speaking locals call it, Weissburgunder. New Zealand's Southern Alps form a towering backbone to the long land mass of South Island. Ballooners will fly over the heart of the Julian Alps with starts in beatiful valleys of the Alps. Antonio Carluccio and Gennaro Contaldo are in the Rhaetian Alps, where they discover how tough life in the mountains was during the war. Optional excursions include a trip St Moritz to ride the Bernina Region Railway, the highest in the Alps. Alpines, Oberhaslis, Saanens, and Toggenburgs all originated in the Swiss Alps and are therefore referred to as the Swiss, or European, breeds. Dig out those salopettes because, as from this winter, you'll be able to fly to the Alps with Flybe. Blatter's first wife was Liliane Biner, from his home town of Visp in the Alps. Alpine Elements is a leading provider of package holidays to the French and Austrian Alps, and offers luxurious resorts for competitive prices. They obviously haven't taken the January and February temperature in the French Alps or Massif Central. The Triglav National Park was founded over a century ago and covers much of the Slovene area of the Julian Alps. Last year, IDE presented its snowmaking technology to representatives of the global ski industry, including leading ski resorts in the Alps. He is aiming to warm the cockles of diners throughout January and February with traditional snowy mountain fondue recipes from the Alps. The glaciers lie at the junction of the Southern Alps and the Tasman Sea on the west coast of South Island in New Zealand. The 30 acre estate is home to magnificent gardens, vegetable patches and orchards, with splendid views across the Southern Alps. Show More Sentences Ten Alps, the multimedia company has announced the appointment of David Galan as its chief financial officer, with effect from 1 January. Aachen Cathedral was erected on the orders of Charlemagne in AD 796 and was, on completion, in 798, the largest cathedral north of the Alps. De Charpentier transformed Venetz's idea into a theory with a glaciation limited to the Alps. De Charpentier was put out by this, as he had also been preparing a book about the glaciation of the Alps. In the Alps, the mountain hare lives at elevations from 700 to 3800 m, depending on biographic region and season. In Switzerland, they are a common sight in all rural areas, excluding the Alps and its foothills. The Armorican massif straightened and flattened several times during the formation of the Pyrenees and the Alps. Mountain glaciers are widespread, especially in the Andes, the Himalayas, the Rocky Mountains, the Caucasus, Scandinavian mountains and the Alps. It was coined by peasants to describe alluvial embankments and rims found near the margins of glaciers in the French Alps. The Canegrate culture migrated from the northwest part of the Alps and descended to Pianura Padana from the Swiss Alps passes and the Ticino. For example, the encirclement parent of Mont Blanc, the highest peak in the Alps, is Mount Everest. The Vanoise National Park in the Alps was the first French national park, created in 1963 after public mobilization against a touristic project. A little later, with Sedgwick as his companion, Murchison attacked the difficult problem of the geological structure of the Alps. It appears further south in mountainous areas of the Alps, Norway, Scotland, Wales, Iceland, Siberia, and western North America. The Jurassic is named after the Jura Mountains within the European Alps, where limestone strata from the period were first identified. The watershed of the Rhine reaches into the Alps today, but it did not start out that way. During its course from the Alps to the North Sea, the Rhine passes through four countries and constitutes six different country borders. It was separated from the Tethys Ocean to the south by the formation of the Alps, Carpathians, Dinarides, Taurus and Elburz mountains. Similar geologic evidence can be seen in the Alpine orogeny of Europe, where the movement of the African plate raised the Alps. He provided evidence for his theory using fossil records from the Alps and Africa. Show More Sentences The golden eagle preys on the European hare in the Alps, the Carpathians, the Apennines and northern Spain. The formation of the Himalayas and the Alps brought about significant geographic changes. The male black grouse's tail feathers are a traditional ornament for hats in areas such as Scotland and the Alps. Folk dances from the Alps to the North American prairies imitate the displays of lekking males. Another spruce with smoothly rounded cone scales and hairy shoots occurs rarely in the Central Alps in eastern Switzerland. Rather, they consist of several orographically and geologically distinctive groups, presenting as great a structural variety as the Alps. Through changes in atmospheric circulation, the AMO can also modulate spring snowfall over the Alps and glaciers' mass variability. Some world regions, such as the French Alps, already show signs of an increase in landslide frequency. Skiing in Australia began in the 1860s and snow sports take place in the Australian Alps and parts of Tasmania. First, Marius had to deal with the Teutones, who were in the province of Narbonensis marching toward the Alps. The Teurisci were probably a group of Celtic Taurisci from the eastern Alps. After the Upper Rhine valley had been eroded, most waters from the Alps changed their direction and began feeding the Rhine. The Central Eastern Alps, Northern Limestone Alps and Southern Limestone Alps are all partly in Austria. The Alps of western Austria give way somewhat into low lands and plains in the eastern part of the country. The Urnfield culture was located in an area stretching from western Hungary to eastern France, from the Alps to near the North Sea. They are supposed to have been made in upper Italy or the Eastern Alps and imitate wooden shields. Italy was now open to invasion, yet for some reason, the Cimbri and their allies moved west over the Alps and into Gaul. According to the ancient authors, the Boii arrived in northern Italy by crossing the Alps. Strabo confirms that the Boii emigrated from their lands across the Alps and were one of the largest tribes of the Celts. Having migrated to Italy from north of the Alps, some of the defeated Celts simply moved back to their kinsfolk. Show More Sentences Cologne was one of the leading members of the Hanseatic League and one of the largest cities north of the Alps in medieval and Renaissance times. Among the famous buildings were the largest theatre north of the Alps and a bridge across the Rhine. The Archbishops of Mainz traditionally were primas germaniae, the substitutes of the Pope north of the Alps. In 489, Theoderic led the Ostrogoths across the Julian Alps and into Italy. This Charles Martel was practically overlord of Europe north of the Alps from the Pyrenees to Hungary. Charlemagne and his uncle Bernard crossed the Alps in 773 and chased the Lombards back to Pavia, which they then besieged. The highlands are characterised by the typical vegetation of the whole range of the Italian Alps. The higher areas, up to the Prealps and Alps sectors of the north, produce fruit and wine. The Alemanni settled the Swiss plateau in the 5th century and the valleys of the Alps in the 8th century, forming Alemannia. The Old Swiss Confederacy was an alliance among the valley communities of the central Alps. Both are located within the Pennine Alps in the canton of Valais, on the border with Italy. The wettest conditions persist in the high Alps and in the Ticino canton which has much sun yet heavy bursts of rain from time to time. Additionally, in the south there were Celtic peoples still living east of the Rhine and north of the Alps. With the campaigns of the next year, Napoleon aimed for the Austrian possessions across the Alps. Between the 12th and 13th centuries, Italy was vastly different from feudal Europe north of the Alps. Both expeditions were badly conducted and failed, and on 8 September Charles VIII crossed the Alps and joined Ludovico il Moro at Milan. The Alps are a source of minerals that have been mined for thousands of years. Evidence of human habitation in the Alps goes back to the Palaeolithic era. Hannibal famously crossed the Alps with a herd of elephants, and the Romans had settlements in the region. In World War II, Adolf Hitler kept a base of operation in the Bavarian Alps throughout the war. Show More Sentences The Winter Olympic Games have been hosted in the Swiss, French, Italian, Austrian and German Alps. The Alps have been crossed for war and commerce, and by pilgrims, students and tourists. Important geological concepts were established as naturalists began studying the rock formations of the Alps in the 18th century. Flysch deposits in the Southern Alps of Lombardy probably occurred in the Cretaceous or later. The Alps provide lowland Europe with drinking water, irrigation, and hydroelectric power. Other rivers such as the Danube have major tributaries flowing into them that originate in the Alps. The Alps are split into five climatic zones, each with different vegetation. Grazing and pasture land are limited because of the steep and rocky topography of the Alps. The inner are located in Tuscany and Umbria and correspond well with the geography, comprising the Apuan Alps and Umbrian Apennines. After the region was conquered in 15 BC, it was incorporated into Raetia, a large district which stretched from the central Alps to the Danube. It is the lowest pass lying on the ridge between the two highest mountains of the Alps, Mont Blanc and Monte Rosa. They hired 30,000 mercenaries from beyond the Alps and awaited the arrival of the Romans. This mission had the specific aim of establishing a safe place for Hannibal to debouch from the Alps into the Po valley. Hannibal did not know a great deal about the Alps, but he knew enough to know that it was going to be a difficult march. Hannibal knew enough about the Alps to know in particular that the descent was steeper than the ascent into the Alps. Much of Hannibal's marches are shrouded in debate, especially the debate concerning the path he opted to employ over the Alps. Hannibal needed to reach the Alps quickly in order to beat the onset of winter. In the face of winter and hostile tribes, the consul decided to return to Italy and await the arrival of Hannibal as he descended from the Alps. From this tribe he received supplies that were required for the expedition across the Alps. The majority of Hannibal's fighters were unaccustomed to extreme cold of the high Alps, being mostly from Africa and Iberia. Show More Sentences After the two days of rest, Hannibal ordered the descent from the Alps to begin. There is a population in the Alps, and isolated remnants in Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Walking is used in the United Kingdom to describe a range of activity, from a walk in the park to trekking in the Alps. The Alps were where the first systematic scientific research on ice ages was conducted by Louis Agassiz at the beginning of the 19th century. An edition printed at Ulm in 1482, including woodcut maps, was the first one printed north of the Alps. An edition printed at Ulm in 1482 was the first one printed north of the Alps. In 401 Stilicho travelled over the Alps to Raetia, to scrape up further troops. Anthemius sent his son over the Alps, with an army, to request that the Visigoths return southern Gaul to Roman control. In 388, Maximus led his army across the Alps into Italy in an attempt to claim the purple. The other sister, whose name is uncertain, was married to a prince from near the Alps who has not definitely been identified. After a difficult crossing over the Alps, the French army entered the plains of Northern Italy virtually unopposed. Swiss Electric Locomotive at Brig, Switzerland, note the Alps at top right corner. Hannibal, son of Hamilcar Barca, rapidly marched through Hispania to the Italian Alps, causing panic among Rome's Italian allies. The Waldensian Church survived in the Western Alps through many persecutions and remains a Protestant church in Italy. In 911, the bishop of Narbonne was unable to return to France from Rome because the Moors from Fraxinet controlled all the passes in the Alps. Once over the Alps, Napoleon did not proceed directly to the relief of Genoa. The Mays are passionate hikers, and they regularly spend their holidays hiking in the Swiss Alps. The municipal area stretches along the Lower Inn Valley between the Brandenberg Alps in the northwest and the Kaiser Mountains in the southeast. North of the town, the Inn river leaves the Northern Limestone Alps and enters the Bavarian Alpine Foreland. Its drainage basin comprises large parts of the Northern Limestone and Central Eastern Alps. Show More Sentences I can claim no such dedication to duty since Christmas was passed way up the French Alps in a place where Brigitte Bardots are two-a-penny but horses a rarity. We stayed on the edge of Castellane, a pretty town deep in Provence with rolling sunflower fields, vast plains and the dramatic mountains of the Southern Alps. Turin, the gateway to the Alps and to the Italian peninsula, was particularly well placed for the use of paintings in quasi-public spaces by those who commissioned them. Where the foothills of the Alps and the Pannonian Plain meet, a special landscape protection area of veldt and reed regions, oak forests, landscapes and woodlands has arisen. The subarctic and tundra climates seen around the Alps are much warmer in winter than what is normal elsewhere due in part to the Oceanic influence on this part of Europe. In 1790 he went on a walking tour of Europe, during which he toured the Alps extensively, and visited nearby areas of France, Switzerland, and Italy. Classified as antelopes, chamois are smaller than ibex and found throughout the Alps, living above the tree line and are common in the entire alpine range. It's enough to give a certain gadget from the Alps performance anxiety. They hibernate in large groups to provide warmth, and can be found in all areas of the Alps, in large colonies they build beneath the alpine pastures. In 107 BC, the Romans were defeated again, this time by the Tigurini, who were allies of the Cimbri whom they had met on their way through the Alps. The Tigurini, who had planned on following the Cimbri, turned back over the Alps with their booty and joined those of the Helvetians who had not participated in the raids. During the Second Punic War in 218 BC, the Carthaginian general Hannibal probably crossed the Alps with an army numbering 38,000 infantry, 8,000 cavalry, and 37 war elephants. After the marriage in 1476 of King Matthias to Beatrice of Naples, Buda became one of the most important artistic centres of the Renaissance north of the Alps. In the 19th century, the monasteries built in the high Alps during the medieval period to shelter travellers and as places of pilgrimage, became tourist destinations. Lothair took East Francia, comprising both banks of the Rhine and eastwards, leaving Charles West Francia with the empire to the west of the Rhineland and the Alps. The snow on the Southern side of the Alps melts and thaws to a greater or lesser extent during the course of the day, and then refreezes at night. Other villages in the Alps are considering becoming car free zones or limiting the number of cars for reasons of sustainability of the fragile Alpine terrain. In the 11th century, populations north of the Alps began to settle new lands, some of which had reverted to wilderness after the end of the Roman Empire. Haggis located his draft's climax in the Swiss Alps, but Forster wanted the action sequences to allude to the four classical elements of earth, water, air and fire. This cozy, Romansh-speaking village in the heart of Grison Alps, located between Davos and St Moritz, can be reached from Zurich by car or train in two and a half hours. Show More Sentences Roman imperial governors resided in the city and it became one of the most important trade and production centres in the Roman Empire north of the Alps. The Matterhorn in the European Alps is an example of such a peak. The Petit Saint Bernard circle lies further afield, in the French Alps. The territory initially known as East Francia stretched from the Rhine in the west to the Elbe River in the east and from the North Sea to the Alps. Since their signing, Ictus have played a gig in the French Alps and been pencilled in for the annual Warp Tour, a celebration of music and skateboarding. The Alps and Apennines mountains form a natural barrier that protects the city from the major circulations coming from northern Europe and the sea. The first part of his historic journey is now named the Route Napoleon and runs from the shores of the Mediterranean to Grenoble in the Southern Alps. The London society is one of many worldwide who arrange visits to the scenes of Holmes adventures, such as the Reichenbach Falls in the Swiss Alps. The stormy backdrop of Hannibal Crossing The Alps is reputed to have been inspired by a storm over the Chevin in Otley while he was staying at Farnley Hall. Liechtenstein is situated in the Upper Rhine valley of the European Alps and is bordered to the east by Austria and to the south and west by Switzerland. To put it simply, Step Into The Void is a large cube, designed entirely in custom-made glass, suspended over the Alps, and situated at the Aiguille du Midi viewing terrace. It was a system of ramparts, camps, watchtowers and burgi in the Julian Alps that was to protect the mountain passes into Italy, especially the Via Gemina, from invaders. Effie was too ill to undertake the European tour of 1849, so Ruskin visited the Alps with his parents, gathering material for the third and fourth volumes of Modern Painters. In the northwest they join with the Ligurian Alps at Altare. When the kingdom of Middle Francia was partitioned in 855, the lands north of the Alps passed to Lothair II and consecutively were named Lotharingia. Later similar explanations were reported from other regions of the Alps. A court in Albertville in the French Alps yesterday ordered the closure of the snack bar at the request of the former L'Oreal boss, whose family are Welsh. During the summer of 1835 he made some excursions to the Bavarian Alps. Once Gundulph had entered a convent, Anselm, at age 23, left home with a single attendant, crossed the Alps, and wandered through Burgundy and France for three years. In central Europe, golden eagles today occur almost exclusively in the grand mountain ranges, such as Pyrenees, Alps, Carpathians and the Caucasus. Show More Sentences The tectonics, however, are not the same as those which created the Alps. According to Pliny and Livy, after the invasion of the Gauls, some of the Etruscans living in the Po Valley sought refuge in the Alps and became known as the Raeti. In the north the terrain is mountainous, with the Arrochar Alps, Beinn Bhuidhe, Glen Shira, Glen Fyne, Glen Croe, Arrochar, Tyndrum and Loch Lomond nearby. Michael in Munich, the largest Renaissance church north of the Alps. St Michael in Munich is the largest Renaissance church north of the Alps. In 15 BC, Tiberius, who was destined to be the second Roman emperor and his brother, Drusus, conquered the Alps, integrating them into the Roman Empire. Instability there is comparable to the Alps bordering the Po Valley. Arial view of the Pennine Alps from a plane above the Mont Blanc. By 500 the Etruscans expanded to border Celts in north Italy, and trade across the Alps began to overhaul trade with the Greeks, and the Rhone route declined. The wolpertinger roams the mountains and forests of the Bavarian Alps. Bernard is one of the most ancient passes through the Western Alps, with evidence of use as far back as the Bronze Age and surviving traces of a Roman road. Draba aizoides has a wide distribution in the mountains of southern and central Europe, from the Pyrenees in the west, through the Alps to the Carpathians. Leading his horde across the Alps and into Northern Italy, he sacked and razed the cities of Aquileia, Vicetia, Verona, Brixia, Bergamum and Milan. The war was initially inconclusive, as the Italian army get struck in a long attrition war in the Alps, making little progress and suffering very heavy losses. The lake is situated in Germany, Switzerland and Austria near the Alps. The Romans were determined to drive their borders right up to the Alps. Nestled in the Bernese Alps, The Alpina Gstaad is set among five acres in the exclusive hilltop area of Oberbort, five minutes from the village center. A German skier was killed by an avalanche in the Austrian province of Tyrol yesterday, taking the weekend toll from snowslides in the Alps to four. The Paratethys was separated from the Tethys with the formation of the Alps, Carpathians, Dinarides, Taurus and Elburz mountains during the Alpine orogeny. By the late 18th century the formidable mountain chain comprising the Monch, Eiger and Jungfrau, in the Bernese Alps, was already becoming a tourist destination. Show More Sentences They are generally found in the Southern Alps near the Main Divide. Alais made the trip over the Alps and joined Henry II's court, but she died before marrying John, which left the prince once again without an inheritance. By contrast, the Pyrenees, Alps, Apennines, Carpathians and other mountain ranges run through Europe, and the continent is also divided by several seas. Prior to the explosion of data on the topic from about the year 2000 many authors took the approach that the Apennines had the same origin as the Alps. Today CastelloA offers traditional blue cheese such as Danablu next to Swedish KvibilleA and the Bavarian cheeses made of mountain milk from the Alps. The Insubres, whose tribal territory immediately abutted the Alps, and the Boii, farther down the Po, were particularly pleased with Hannibal's proposed invasion. After receiving news of the route he was about to take from his scouts and messages from the Celtic tribes that resided around the Alps, the Carthaginians set out. Other major events took place during the Cenozoic, including the opening of the Gulf of California, the uplift of the Alps, and the opening of the Sea of Japan. This region of the Southern Alps contains many well preserved atolls, including the Sella, Gardenaccia, Sassolungo and Latemar, the latter being a backstepping type platform. The Rhaetian Alps eat climbers like candy, Yet the Cherangani are mild. The Carpathians at their highest altitude are only as high as the middle region of the Alps, with which they share a common appearance, climate, and flora. Series of lower mountain ranges run parallel to the main chain of the Alps, including the French Prealps in France and the Jura Mountains in Switzerland and France. Enjoying the sun and getting a spring tan is best done in the French resort Orcieres Merlette, in the Italian resort Carezza or in Carinthia on the southern side of the Alps. The ideas of the Italian Renaissance were slow to cross the Alps into northern Europe, but important artistic innovations were made also in the Low Countries. It is the first tunnel, which traverses the Alps on ground level. The country's varied topography and its sharp mountain peaks, such as the Southern Alps, owe much to the tectonic uplift of land and volcanic eruptions. The Cimbri had penetrated through the Alps into northern Italy. The formation of the Alps was a segment of this orogenic process, caused by the collision between the African and the Eurasian plates that began in the late Cretaceous Period. The WEC was successful in reducing wolf numbers in the Dinaric Alps. Austria is a largely mountainous country due to its location in the Alps. Find more words! 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