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This is a list of the top 20 highest ultra prominent mountains in mainland Balkan Peninsula. Musala Peak, Rila Mountain , Bulgaria Mytikas Peak, Mount Olympus , Greece Maja e Jezercës , Accursed Mountains , Albania Vihren , Pirin Mountain , Bulgaria Radomir/Kalabak/Kerkini , Belasitsa , Bulgaria and Greece View of Botev Peak from I-6 road ...
The Central Balkan Mountains run from Arabakonak to the Vratnik Pass, with a length of 207 kilometres (129 mi). Botev Peak, the highest mountain in the Balkan range at 2,376 metres (7,795 ft), is located in this section. The Eastern Balkan Mountains extend from the Vratnik Pass to Cape Emine, with a length of 160 kilometres (99 mi). The highest ...
The large mountain chain of Stara planina (Balkan Mountains) runs west–east across the entire country, bisecting it and giving the name to the entire Balkan peninsula. Other extensive mountains are the massifs Rhodopes and Strandzha in the south.
The earliest mention of the name appears in an early 14th-century Arab map, in which the Haemus Mountains are referred to as Balkan. [19] The first attested time the name "Balkan" was used in the West for the mountain range in Bulgaria was in a letter sent in 1490 to Pope Innocent VIII by Buonaccorsi Callimaco , an Italian humanist, writer and ...
Pages in category "Mountains of the Balkan mountains" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
The Dinaric Alps (/ d ɪ ˈ n ær ɪ k /), [1] also Dinarides, are a mountain range in Southern and Southcentral Europe, separating the continental Balkan Peninsula from the Adriatic Sea. They stretch from Italy in the northwest through Slovenia , Croatia , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Serbia , Montenegro , and Kosovo to Albania in the southeast.
The Balkan Mountains – Stara Planina — a mountain range in central Bulgaria and eastern Serbia. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. M.
Maps of the Balkans (5 C, 1 P) O. Organizations based in the Balkans (14 C) R. Rhodope mountain range (5 C, 61 P) S. Sport in the Balkans (19 C, 9 P) Pages in ...