The Pindus (also Pindos or Pindhos; Greek: Πίνδος, romanized: Píndos; Albanian: Pindet; Aromanian: Pindu) is a mountain range located in Northern Greece...
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The pindu (Stomatepia pindu) is a critically endangered species of cichlid endemic to Lake Barombi Mbo in western Cameroon. The normal coloration of the...
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Pindus (Ancient Greek: Πίνδος), in Greek mythology, was the son of Makednos. He was friend with a snake and when his three brothers killed Pindus, the...
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Battle of Pindus (Italian: Battaglia del Pindo, Albanian: Beteja e Pindit, Greek: Μάχη της Πίνδου Máchi tis Píndou) took place in the Pindus Mountains...
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Pindos (disambiguation) (redirect from Pindus (disambiguation))
Pindos or Pindus is the largest mountain range in Greece, extending to southern Albania. Pindos or Pindus can also refer to: from the mountain range :...
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38°40′53″N 22°22′38″E / 38.6815°N 22.3773°E / 38.6815; 22.3773 Pindos or Pindus (Greek: Πίνδος), also called Acyphas or Akyphas (Ἀκύφας), was an ancient...
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lakes. The area belong to the wider Pindus Mountains mixed forests ecoregion and is a representative part of Pindus mountain range. Moreover, it belongs...
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create a semi-independent entity by the name "Principality of the Pindus" or "Pindus Canton" with himself as the "Prince". The Roman Legion was never able...
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uneducated readers. It included additions by Nicolidi of Pindus that he deemed important. Nicolidi of Pindus invented the "Life Balm" (German: Lebensbalsam; Greek:...
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Oxynoemacheilus pindus is a species of Cypriniformes fish in the stone loach family (Nemacheilidae). It is found in Greece and Albania. Its natural habitat...
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The Pindus Mountains mixed forests constitute a terrestrial ecoregion of Europe according to both the WWF and Digital Map of European Ecological Regions...
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Retrieved 21 November 2012. "Pindus Mons". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. Retrieved 10 September 2019. "Pindus Mons". Retrieved 10 November 2012...
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rugged snow-capped mountains in the Albanian Alps and the Korab, Skanderbeg, Pindus and Ceraunian Mountains, to fertile lowland plains extending from the Adriatic...
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Kanianitis (redirect from Pindus River)
was called Pindos or Pindus (Greek: Πίνδος). The Pindus was a river of ancient Phocis and Doris. The ancient cities Lilaea and Pindus were situated on the...
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Hellenic counterattack against the invading Italian forces at the mountains of Pindus during the Greco-Italian War and Greek resistance during the Axis occupation...
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Greco-Italian War (section Pindus sector)
battalions and 22 artillery batteries (seven heavy). The Pindus sector was covered by the "Pindus Detachment" (Απόσπασμα Πίνδου) (Colonel Konstantinos Davakis)...
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Romania Rysy 2,503 8,212 Tatras, Poland/Slovakia Mount Tymfi 2,497 8,192 Pindus, Greece Monte Velino 2,487 8,159 Abruzzo Italy Monte Vettore 2,476 8,123...
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Jenaro Pindú (1946–1993) was a prominent cartoonist, sculptor and architect of Paraguay. He was a student of Hermann Guggiari, one of the best-known Paraguayan...
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13,676 km (8,498 mi).[citation needed] 80% of Greece is mountainous. The Pindus mountain range lies across the center of the country in a northwest-to-southeast...
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side of the Pindus. The winds from the Ionian Sea offer the region more rainfall than any other part of Greece. The Vikos-Aoos and Pindus National Parks...
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Ἁμάδρυας) was the nymph daughter of Orius (mountain-god of Othrys or the Pindus) and sister Oxylus (daimon of the mountain forest). Hamadryas' name means...
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Samarina Republic (category Pindus)
In the autumn of 1918, a group of Aromanians from the Pindus declared the "Republic of the Pindus" in Korçë, which lasted for one day. This group even...
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largely made up of the Pindus Mountains, a series of parallel limestone ridges that are a continuation of the Dinaric Alps. The Pindus mountains form the...
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contains a number of lakes and wetlands and is dominated by the Pindus mountain range. The Pindus, a continuation of the Dinaric Alps, reaches a maximum elevation...
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gorges Caves Geology Islands (Aegean, Ionian, Crete) Mountains (Olympus, Pindus, Rhodopes) Peninsulas Plains Volcanoes Water Coasts Lakes Rivers Mediterranean...
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Românul de la Pind (redirect from The Romanian of the Pindus)
Românul de la Pind ("The Romanian of the Pindus" in Romanian) was a Romanian weekly newspaper. It was founded on 26 May 1903 in Bucharest, Romania, by...
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Aspropotamos area, in the Pindus range. Markos, an ambitious journalist, travels to an almost deserted village in the Pindus mountains, looking for some...
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gorges Caves Geology Islands (Aegean, Ionian, Crete) Mountains (Olympus, Pindus, Rhodopes) Peninsulas Plains Volcanoes Water Coasts Lakes Rivers Mediterranean...
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of the Republic can be subdivided into four terrestrial ecoregions: the Pindus Mountains mixed forests, Balkan mixed forests, Rodope montane mixed forests...
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Samarina in the Pindus mountains, Araia was an exception among the Aromanian writers who emigrated from their homeland, returning to the Pindus after two years...
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