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The Pindus (also Pindos or Pindhos; [1] Greek: Πίνδος, romanized: Píndos; Albanian: Pindet; Aromanian: Pindu) is a mountain range located in Northern Greece and Southern Albania. It is roughly 160 km (100 miles) long, with a maximum elevation of 2,637 metres (8652') (Mount Smolikas). Because it runs along the border of Thessaly and ...
The Pindus Mountains mixed forests are situated in the montane parts of the southern Balkans in the wide altitudinal range above 300–500 m. They cover Taygetus on the Peloponnesus in the south, occur in the mountain ranges of Central Greece (including the Pindus ), eastern Albania and the southwestern part of North Macedonia, extend to the ...
The Vikos Gorge or Vikos Canyon (Greek: Φαράγγι του Βίκου) is a gorge in the Pindus Mountains of north-western Greece.It lies on the southern slopes of Mount Tymphe with a length of about 32 km, depth ranging from 120 to 1350 m, and a width ranging from 2500 m to only a few meters at its narrowest part.
The Pindus mountain range lies across the center of the country in a northwest-to-southeast direction, with a maximum elevation of 2,637 m. Extensions of the same mountain range stretch across the Peloponnese and underwater across the Aegean, forming many of the Aegean Islands including Crete, and joining with the Taurus Mountains of
Peak Height Mountain range Regional unit m ft Olympus: 2,917 9,570 Olympus Larissa, Pieria: Smolikas: 2,637 8,652 Pindus: Ioannina: Kaimaktsalan: 2,524 8,281 Voras
Zagori (Greek: Ζαγόρι; Aromanian: Zagori), is a region, a municipality, and a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site, in the Pindus mountains in Epirus, in northwestern Greece. The seat of the municipality is the village Asprangeloi. [3] It has an area of some 1,000 square kilometres (390 sq mi) and contains 46 villages known as Zagori ...
Meteora is located in between the town of Kalabaka and the village of Kastraki at the northwestern edge of the Plain of Thessaly near the Pineios river and Pindus Mountains. [5] The Meteora complex was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1988 because of its outstanding architecture and beauty, combined with religious and cultural ...
The Apennines [2] or Apennine Mountains (/ ˈ æ p ə n aɪ n / AP-ə-nyne; Greek: Ἀπέννινα ὄρη or Ἀπέννινον ὄρος; [3] Latin: Appenninus or Apenninus Mons – a singular with plural meaning; [4] Italian: Appennini [appenˈniːni]) [note 1] are a mountain range consisting of parallel smaller chains extending c. 1,200 km (750 mi) along the length of peninsular Italy.