DINARIC ALPS

dīnârˈĭk, Ital. Alpi Dinariche, Serbo-Croatian Dinara Planina, mountain system, extending c.400 mi (640 km) along the east coast of the Adriatic Sea from the Isonzo River, NE Italy, through Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, and Serbia and Montenegro, to the Drin River, N Albania. The highest peak is Jezerce (8,833 ft/2,692 m) in N Albania. The system, linked to the main Alpine group by the Julian Alps, consists of the Dinaric Alps proper, Velebit Mts., Karst plateau, and North Albanian Alps. The partially submerged western part of the system forms the numerous islands and harbors along the Croatian coast. The rugged mountains, composed of limestone and dolomite, are a barrier to travel from the coast to the interior; there are no natural passes. Sinkholes and caverns dominate the landscape. The region is sparsely populated and forestry and mining are the chief economic activities.

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books on: Dinaric Alps  - 93 results

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Yugoslavia
Book by Robert J. Kerner; University of California Press, 1949
Subjects: Yugoslavia
...from those of known fossil men. No Dinaric skulls have ever been excavated from sites older than 3000 B.C. The Dinaric combination of features seems to have...of central Europe, particularly the Dinaric Alps. The Dinarics
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Yugoslavia
Book by Robert J. Kerner; University of California Press, 1949
Subjects: Yugoslavia
...from those of known fossil men. No Dinaric skulls have ever been excavated from sites older than 3000 B.C. The Dinaric combination of features seems to have...of central Europe, particularly the Dinaric Alps. The Dinarics
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Twentieth-Century Yugoslavia
Book by Fred Singleton; Macmillan, 1976
Subjects: Yugoslavia--Economic Conditions--1945-1992, Yugoslavia--Politics And Government--1945-1980
...place. In the north-west the Alps of Slovenia form part of the...North Italy and Austria. The Dinaric Alps, which lie behind the...in crossing the grain of the Dinaric ranges -- for example the...drained floors of the polja . The Dinaric system seals off the Mediterranean...
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Ethnic Cleansing in the Balkans: Nationalism and the Destruction of Tradition
Book by Cathie Carmichael; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Balkan Peninsula--Ethnic Relations--History, Ethnic Relations--Religious Aspects, Nationalism--Balkan Peninsula--History, Population Transfers
...and patterns of violence in the Dinaric region. 26 Croats and Bosnian Muslims...asserts that the rocky spine of the Dinaric Alps nurtured the most extreme and combative...villages that are scattered down the Dinaric mountain range enjoy a similar reputation...
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Creating the Other: Ethnic Conflict and Nationalism in Habsburg Central Europe
Book by Nancy M. Wingfield; Berghahn Books, 2003
Subjects: Austria--Ethnic Relations, Austria--Politics And Government--1789-1900, Europe, Central--Ethnic Relations, Europe, Central--Politics And Government, Nationalism--Europe, Central--History--19th Century, Nationalism--Europe, Central--History--20th Century, Racism--Europe, Central--History--19th Century, Racism--Europe, Central--History--20th Century
...former Yugoslavia is overcoming the Dinaric social character and its barbaric...personalities, he asserts that the Dinaric Alps have been and continue to be a hot...that the savage violence of the Dinaric social character has never been...
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Yugoslav Wars: The "Revenge of the Countryside" between Sociological Reality and Nationalist Myth
Journal article by Xavier Bougarel; East European Quarterly, Vol. 33, 1999
Subjects: Paramilitary groups--Social aspects, Yugoslav Popular Army--Political activity, Yugoslavia--Military aspects
...Many warlords are natives of the Dinaric Alps,(4) and these areas were the...strength and spatial mobility of the Dinaric populations explain "that the...Balkan peninsula. (4.) The Dinaric Alps stretch from Slovenian Alps to...
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The Return to Barbarism
Journal article by Clifford S. Poirot Jr.; Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 31, 1997
Subjects: Balkan Peninsula--Economic aspects
...culture exhibits a dichotomy between Dinaric (aggressive, militaristic, expansionist...conflict between the Marian and Dinaric aspects of Southeast European cultures...militias do have their roots in the Dinaric alps, it is not clear that the militias...
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Conflict in the Balkans: a Classroom Simulation
Journal article by Marc Major, Kari Nelson; Social Studies, Vol. 86, 1995
Subjects: History--Study And Teaching, Social Sciences--Study And Teaching
...Yugoslavia outlined on the blank map 2. the three main geographic features listed on the Balkans Data Sheet-- the Dinaric Alps, the Romanian Plain, and the Dalmatian Coast When half the class has finished, ask volunteers to fill in their findings...
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Eastern European Cinema
Journal article by Dina Iordanova; Journal of Film and Video, Vol. 51, 1999
Subjects: Curricula, Eastern Europe, Motion pictures
...and common geographic names that do not coincide with country names (e.g., Transylvania, Carpathians, Danube, Dinaric Alps, Balkan Mountains, Ruthenia, Bohemia, Moravia, Thrace). We discuss the ethnolinguistic tapestry of the region...
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Exploring the Parameters of a Central European Sprachbund
Journal article by George Thomas; Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 50, 2008
Subjects: Influence, Language, Linguistics, Slavic languages
...Mountains extending from the Bavarian Forest through the Sudeten, the Tatras to the Transylvanian Alps; to the south, the Julian Alps and the Dinaric Range; and in the west, the Tauern and Dolomites of the Alpine Range. The area bordered by these...


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The War on Bosnia: In the Ethnic War of a Decade Ago, People and Communities Suffered and Died. Now, It's the Environment's Turn
Magazine article by Tim Clancy; World Watch, Vol. 17, March 2004
...pristine wilderness in the heart of the Dinaric Alps, but the clash of Mediterranean...rivers from the high peaks of the Dinaric range have carved deep canyons on...establish the heart of the Dinaric Alps as a protected zone. Protected status...
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We're All Explorers Now: The Roots of Adventure Travel Lie More in the Swinging Sixties Than in Serious Exploration, but Its Emerging Position as a Serious Option for the Short-Break Tourist Means More of Us Are Going Farther and Farther Afield. Tom Chesshyre Takes a Walk Back Down the Hippy Trail
Magazine article by Tom Chesshyre; Geographical, Vol. 77, November 2005
Subjects: Adventure travel, Discoveries (in geography)--Methods, Discovery and exploration--Methods, Tourism, Travel industry
...adventure on a short package holiday. My trip to the Dinaric Alps, just outside Sarajevo in Croatia, was one of the...offers six-night breaks, including four nights on a Dinaric Alps trip, hiking, biking and rafting from 228 pounds sterling...


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newspaper articles on: Dinaric Alps  - 7 results

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Bosnia's Call to Action Stations; White-Knuckle Thrills on a River So Clean You Can Drink the Water
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), February 22, 2009
...Neretva river at the start of an isolated canyon in the Dinaric Alps in Bosnia, our guide Tim suddenly says: Drink it...home.. The cycling is exhilarating, but tough. The Dinaric Alps are not little hills, theyre big mountains. So with...
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POST PUZZLER: 50 for Fun; Phil Brown's Trivia Quiz
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), March 8, 2007
...plant is the useful material copra obtained? 42 Which Alps run through Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro and...39 Freedom Writers; 40 Tritium; 41 Coconut; 42 The Dinaric Alps; 43 Polands; 44 Albert Tatlock; 45 Xena: Warrior Princess...
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Wonderful Waterfalls; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 15, 2010
...Plitvice national Park in the northern Dalmatian region of croatia, which has 16 lakes formed from runoff from the Dinaric alps. These lakes are famous for their ever-shifting colours, ranging from azure to green, grey or blue, depending...
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Truly Wonder-Fall; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 15, 2010
...Plitvice national Park in the northern Dalmatian region of Croatia, which has 16 lakes formed from run-off from the Dinaric Alps. The lakes are famous for their evershifting colours, ranging from azure to green, grey or blue, depending on the...
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6 THINGS YOU MUST DO IN... CROATIA; ROMANTIC: Only Newer Red Roof Tiles Give Away Dubrovnik's Recent Past. Below: A Handmade Toy
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), July 24, 2011
Subjects: Lonely Planet Publications, Publishing industry
...and Bora Bora, but ahead of Paris and Venice. This handsome city of stone and light, between the Adriatic and the Dinaric Alps, was pounded 6 THINGS YOU MUST DO IN... during the Balkan war of the Nineties. Restorers pieced it together almost...
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encyclopedia articles on: Dinaric Alps  - 10 results

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Dinaric Alps
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DINARIC ALPS dinar ik, Ital. Alpi Dinariche, Serbo-Croatian Dinara Planina...Albania. The system, linked to the main Alpine group by the Julian Alps, consists of the Dinaric Alps proper, Velebit Mts., Karst plateau, and North Albanian...
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Julian Alps
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
JULIAN ALPS mountain range, NE Italy and NW Slovenia, between the Carnic Alps and the Dinaric Alps, rising to 9,396 ft (2,864 m) in Triglav, the highest peak...
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Illyria and Illyricum
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Epirus N to the Danube. More usually Illyria is used to mean only the Adriatic coast N of central Albania and W of the Dinaric Alps. The Illyrians were much affected by the Celts and mingled freely with them; the inhabitants of the later Rhaetia...
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Dalmatia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...capital), Sibenik , and Dubrovnik . Except for a coastal lowland, Dalmatia is generally mountainous, rising to the Dinaric Alps. The coast, which is famed for its scenic beauty and its resorts, has many bays and excellent harbors protected by...
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Serbia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...People Landlocked and largely mountainous in the west and south, Serbia lies within several mountain systems: the Dinaric Alps in the west, the Kopaonik range in the southwest, and the Balkan Mts. in the east. Much of Serbia slopes generally...
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