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Carpathians
Carpathians or Carpathian Mountains, Czech, Pol., and Ukr. Karpaty, Rom. Carpaţii, major mountain system of central and E Europe, extending c.930 mi (1,500 km) along the north and east sides of the Danubian plain. The geologically young mountains, which are part of the main European ch... Read more
Balkans
Balkans Bulg. Stara Planina , major mountain range of the Balkan Peninsula and Bulgaria, extending c.350 mi (560 km) from E Serbia through central Bulgaria to the Black Sea. It rises to 7,794 ft (2,376 m) at Botev, the highest peak. The Balkans are a continuation of the Carpathian Mts. The fores... Read more
Drohobych
Drohobych , Pol. Drohobycz, Rus. Drogobych, city (1989 pop. 78,000), Lviv region, W Ukraine, in the N Carpathian foothills. The major petroleum-refining center of the Boryslav oil field, it is linked by an oil pipeline with Boryslav and a natural gas pipeline with Dashava. An old Ukrainian settl... Read more
Prut
Prut or Pruth , river, c.530 mi (850 km) long, rising in the Carpathian Mts., W Ukraine, and flowing generally SE to the Danube River at Reni. It forms the border between Romania and Moldova. The Prut is navigable to Leovo. By the Peace of the Pruth (1711) Peter I of Russia restored Azov to the ... Read more
Dniester
Dniester , Ukr. Dnister, Moldovan Nistru, Rus. Dnestr, Rom. Nistrul, Turk. Turla, river, c.850 mi (1,370 km) long, forming part of the border between Ukraine and Moldova. It rises in the Carpathian Mts., flows generally SE through SW Ukraine past Halych, Khotin, and Mohyliv-Podilskyy, thro... Read more
Tisza
Tisza , Serbian Tisa , Rus. Tissa or Tisa , Ger. Theiss (tīs), river, c.600 mi (970 km) long, formed by two headstreams in the Carpathians, W Ukraine. It flows generally S across E Hungary, past Szolnok and Szeged, into N Serbia, where it enters the Danube River E of Novi Sad. The Kö... Read more
Ruthenia
Ruthenia , Latinized form of the word Russia. The term was applied to Ukraine in the Middle Ages when the princes of Halych briefly assumed the title kings of Ruthenia. Later, in Austria-Hungary, the term Ruthenians was used to designate the Ukrainian population of W Ukraine, which included Gal... Read more
Vistula
Vistula , Pol. Wisła, longest river and principal waterway of Poland, c.665 mi (1,070 km) long. It rises in the West Beskid range of the Carpathians, S Poland, and flows NE past Kraków, NW past Warsaw and Toruń, and N past Grudziądz and Tczew to the Gulf of Danzig on the Balt... Read more
Janet Frame
Janet Frame (Janet Paterson Frame Clutha) , 1924-2004, New Zealand novelist, b. Dunedin. Frame's complex, disturbing novels are marked by startling images and masterful language. Often drawn from her own experience of institutionalization in psychiatric hospitals for eight years (after a misdiagno... Read more
Tatra
Tatra or Tatras , Pol. and Slovak Tatry, highest group of the Carpathian mountain system, in E central Europe. The High Tatra (Slovak Vysoké Tatry, Pol. Tatry Wysokie ) extends c.40 mi (60 km) along the Polish-Slovakian border; its highest peak, Gerlachovský (8,711 ft/2,655 m)... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Carpathian"

Carpathian Brigade
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II Carpathian Brigade, Polish unit, some 5,800 strong, full title the 1st Independent Carpathian Fusilier Brigade. It was formed in Syria...wounded. It was then reorganized as the 3rd Carpathian Division which subsequently took part in...
Carpathian Mountains
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Carpathian Mountains Mountain range in central and e Europe, extending ne from the central Czech Republic to the Polish-Czech border and...
Carpathian Ukraine
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Carpathian Ukraine see Transcarpathian Region , Ukraine.
Carpatho-Rusyns
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...European continent. Their homeland, Carpathian Rus (Ruthenia), is located on...southern and northern slopes of the Carpathian Mountains where the borders of...rule were sought by churches in Carpathian Rus. From the last decade of the...
Romania
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations ...backbone of Romania is formed by the Carpathian Mountains, which swing southeastward...eastern and southern fringes of the Carpathian arc are the low plateaus and plains...in the south. On the inside of the Carpathian arc is the Transylvanian Basin, a hilly...
Slovakia
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography ...4 TOPOGRAPHIC REGIONS The western Carpathian Mountains, which extend over Slovakia...lowlands in the east are part of the Carpathian Depression. The mountains of central...MOUNTAINS AND VOLCANOES The portion of the Carpathian mountain system within Slovakia consists...
Hungarian Americans
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America ...is a small landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe. It is about...their immediate forebears arrived in the Carpathian Basin as late as the seventh century...extending their rule over the entire Carpathian Basin. In a.d. 1000, one of...
Romanians
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...four geographic regions. South of the Carpathian massif is the fertile Wallachian Plain...this hybrid population remained in the Carpathian area in loose confederations of transhumant...separate territorial base. Settlements The Carpathian Hills are considered the zone of original...
Slovak Americans
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America ...and low fertile plains. The vast Carpathian mountain range that stretches along...central region the Tatras, which cap the Carpathian system, reach altitudes as high as...migrated into the region south of the Carpathian Mountains. These ancestors of modern...
Hungary
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures ...square kilometers), the country is in the Carpathian Basin, surrounded by the Carpathian Mountains, the Alps, and the Dinaric Alps...Hungarians "conquering" and occupying the Carpathian Basin and their conversion to Christianity...

Dictionary entries related to "Carpathian"

Laforgue, René (1894-1962)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...Interpretation of Dreams . During the First World War he was mobilized in the German army and barely escaped death in the Carpathian mountains. In 1919 Alsace again became French and Laforgue concluded his medical studies as an intern at the Hoerdt Psychiatric...
Paradzhanov, Sergei
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...film, more flexible than his later stylized creations, revealed a powerful individuality. A tale of life in an ancient Carpathian village, it revealed also a sensitive feeling for nature and landscapes and an awareness of religious forces as it probed...
Heller, Otto
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...the Current ) (Pistek); Koryatovič (Zacearovaný klíček karpatsky ; A Spell on the Carpathian Key ) (Rust-Rozvoda); Proč se nesmeješ (Why Aren't You Laughing? ) (Piala) 1923 Tu Ten K...
Montanari, Geminiano
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...accompanied Del Buono on a, long trip to the mines which supplied the mint, visiting Styria, Bohemia, and Bergstetten, in the, Carpathian Mountains of Upper Hungary (now Horni, Mesto, Czechoslovakia), It appears that their research, and inquiries aroused...
Ukraine
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Ukraine A country comprising a large region of eastern Europe stretching from the Carpathian Mountains to the Donetz River and bounded on the south by the Black Sea. To the east are Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania...
Transylvania
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Transylvania A fertile plateau area of the Carpathian mountains, rich in mineral deposits. With its original Romanian population (since the tenth century) it came under Magyar...
Brancusi, Constantin
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...artists. He was born in the village of Hobitza into a peasant family and learnt woodcarving whilst working as a shepherd in the Carpathian Mountains. In 1896 he won a scholarship to the Bucharest School of Fine Arts, and in 1903 he moved to Munich, then in 1904...
Bukovina
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Bukovina Meaning ‘Beech-Tree Country’, it is a disputed area in the Carpathian foothills. It was part of Austria and then Austria-Hungary from 1775, inhabited mostly by Ukrainians. After World War I it...
Grisebach, August Heinrich Rudolf
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...the western Alps (1833), and later he traveled to Norway (1842), southern France and the Pyrenees (1850), and the Carpathian Mountains (1852). In 1841 he became associate professor, and in 1847 full professor, at the University of G ö...
Slovakia
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, and Austria and the Czech Republic to the west. The Carpathian mountains dominate the country. Some steppe grasslands are to be found in the south-eastern lowlands; one third of the...

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ISS Governance Services Recommends Carpathian Shareholders Vote "FOR" the Acquisition of the Riacho Dos Machados Gold Project
Newspaper article from: CCNMatthews Newswire; 3/31/2008; 700+ words ; ...ONTARIO--(Marketwire - March 31, 2008) - Carpathian Gold Inc. (TSX:CPN) ("Carpathian") is pleased to announce that Institutional...formally recommended that shareholders of Carpathian vote "FOR" the proposed acquisition of...
Carpathian Gold Provides Update on the Acquisition of the Riacho Dos Machados Gold Project, Brazil
Newspaper article from: CCNMatthews Newswire; 3/13/2008; 700+ words ; ...ONTARIO--(Marketwire - March 13, 2008) - Carpathian Gold Inc. (TSX:CPN) ("Carpathian" or the "Corporation") wishes to announce...to $85 million. Paradigm believes that Carpathian is acquiring the RDM project at a price that...
Carpathian Gold Inc....Will the Upsurge Continue with these Volumes?
M2 Presswire; 1/27/2006; 700+ words ; ...2006-www.streetinvesting.com: Carpathian Gold Inc....Will the Upsurge Continue...team will be following the progress of Carpathian Gold Inc.(TSX-V:CPN) after share...for a free membership subscription. Carpathian Gold Inc. is a mineral exploration...
NEW INSIGHTS ON THE DYNAMICS OF THE FOREST VEGETATION FROM THE ROMANIAN CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS
Magazine article from: Ekológia; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...established long-term monitoring of the Carpathian forest ecosystems, the assessment of changes...monitoring and assessment changes in the Carpathian forests at the scale of the entire Carpathian Mountain range. The paper addresses me...
VEGETATION OF THE SELECTED FOREST STANDS IN THE POLISH CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS - CHANGING IN TIME
Magazine article from: Ekológia; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; Abstract In the Carpathian Mountains within the framework of...changes in time, national parks, Carpathian Mts, forest permanent plots Introduction...Szaro, Johnston, 1996). The Carpathian Mountains belong to the most beautiful...
Carpathian Gold Inc. Attracts Attention.
M2 Presswire; 4/23/2007; 700+ words ; ...2007-www.streetinvesting.com: Carpathian Gold Inc. Attracts Attention(C...s overall success were investors of Carpathian Gold Inc. (TSX:CPN), who experienced...companies throughout the Canadian Markets. Carpathian Gold Inc. was one of the prospective...
Timing and Structural Style of Final Thrusting Movements of the Carpathian Orogenic Wedge, S Poland
Magazine article from: Geolines; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...timing of the thrusting movements. Carpathian foredeep basin developed in front of the advancing Carpathian orogenic wedge (cf. Oszczypko et al...front of the flysch (pre-Miocene) Carpathian units (nappes) is filled by the Badenian...
Paleogeography of the Outer Carpathian Carbonate Platforms in Poland
Magazine article from: Geolines; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...platform covered by Miocene deposits of the Carpathian Foredeep. These nappes have mainly...terranes and Eurasia. The other Outer Carpathian basins had developed in the process...tectonic reorganization the new Outer Carpathian realm was formed. Within this realm...
Carpathian has mountain to climb.
Magazine article from: Investors Chronicle - magazine and web content; 5/5/2009; 700+ words ; ...eastern European retail property investor Carpathian has promised to return 8p per share...terminated". Since its formation in 2006, Carpathian has used highly leveraged loans to purchase...Property revaluations wiped GBP163m off Carpathian's investment portfolio in the period...
Carpathian Gold Adds Second Major Exploration/Development Platform With the Acquisition of the Riacho Dos Machados Gold Project, Brazil
Newspaper article from: CCNMatthews Newswire; 12/7/2007; 700+ words ; ...ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Dec. 7, 2007) - Carpathian Gold Inc. (TSX:CPN) ("Carpathian" or the "Corporation") is pleased to...with high quality projects. The benefits to Carpathian of the Proposed Acquisition are as follows...