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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 Dinaric Mountains mixed forests compose the montane forest region of the Dinaric Alps.This mountain range stretches along the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea and occupy 58,200 km² (22,500 mi²) in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, northeastern Kosovo, northern Albania, and northeastern Italy.
The highest mountains in Croatia belong to the Dinarides range that is sometimes also called Dinaric Alps, of which Dinara is the highest mountain in Croatia. Together with the easternmost parts of the Alps , these mountains span most of the country, and their orogenic activity started in the Paleozoic with the Variscan orogeny and continued in ...
Formation of the Dinaric Alps is linked to a Late Jurassic to recent fold and thrust belt, itself a part of Alpine orogeny, extending southeast from the southern Alps. [12] The Dinaric Alps in Croatia encompass the entire Gorski Kotar and Lika regions, as well as considerable parts of Dalmatia, with their northeastern edge running from 1,181 ...
Dinara is a 100-kilometre-long (60-mile) mountain range in the Dinaric Alps, located on the border of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. It has four major mountains or peaks, from north-west to south-east: [1] Ilica or Ujilica (1,654 m) Sinjal or Dinara (1,831 m), eponym to the range, highest mountain in Croatia; Troglav (1,913 m), highest ...
It is the southernmost subrange of the 1,000-kilometre-long (621 mi) Dinaric Alps range (Dinarides), extending from northern Albania to western Kosovo and northeastern Montenegro. Maja Jezercë, standing at 2,694 m (8,839 ft), is the highest point of the Accursed Mountains and of all Dinaric Alps, and the fifth highest peak in Albania.
They're both part of the Dinaric Alps, a mountain chain that spans towards the southeast. The highest peak is Snežnik . Part of the Dinaric Alps are also the Gorjanci mountain range, and in the Slovenian Istria , Mt. Slavnik (1,028 m) and Mt. Vremščica (1,027 m).
The Dinaric race, also known as the ... The term was derived from the Dinaric Alps (the western part of Southeastern Europe) which was supposed to be the principal ...