This Slavic tribe, also known as the Alpine Slavs, was submitted to Avar rule before joining the Slavic chieftain Samo's Slavic tribal union in 623 AD.

The new inhabitants, to whom modern historiography frequently refers to as Alpine Slavs, were subjected to the Avars, but around 623 they joined the Slavic tribal union of Samo.

In the 6th century, the Alpine Slavs, who are reckoned to be ancestors of present-day Slovenes, settled the eastern areas of the Friulia region.

In the 6th century, the Alpine Slavs, who are reckoned to be ancestors of present-day Slovenes, settled the eastern areas of the Friulia region.

Its Proto-Slavic character can be deduced from language contacts of Alpine Slavs with the remainders of the Romanised aboriginal population, later also with Bavarians.

The Alpine Slavs, who inhabited the majority of present-day Austria and Slovenia, were gradually Germanized from the 9th to the 14th century.

Gobineau's basic concept, as further refined and developed in Nazism, places the black Aboriginal Australians and " African savages " at the bottom of the hierarchy, while the white Northern and Western European Aryans ( consisting of Germans, Finnish, Swedish, Icelanders, Norwegians, Danish, British, French, Northern Italians, Irish and Dutch ) were at the top ; white olive-skinned Southern Europeans ( consisting of the Spanish, Southern Italians, Greeks and Portuguese, i. e. those of what is called the Mediterranean race, which was regarded as another subrace of the Caucasian race ) in the upper middle ranks ; Slavs ( Even though the Slavs are white and of Indo-European ancestry, the Nazis placed them lower on the scale because they were regarded as primarily of the Alpine race rather than the Nordic race, and thus fit only to be peasants.

In the 6th century, the Alpine Slavs, ancestors of present-day Slovenes, settled the eastern areas of the region.

From about 530, Bavarii tribes settled the region from the west, they met with Alpine Slavs who had moved northwards through the Enns Valley and across the Dachstein Mountains.

After the disintegration of Samo's realm, Alpine Slavs established the Principality of Carantania in the Eastern Alps, which was independent from around 660 to around 745, when it fell under the Bavarian zone of influence and was later incorporated in the Frankish Empire.

The Slavic ancestors of present-day Slovenes settled in the East Alpine area at the end of the 6th century.

# Tyrol, up to the Alpine water divide at the Brenner Pass, which includes the modern-day Italian provinces of Trentino ) and South Tyrol.

By 1882, he had settled near Alpine and taken up ranching, branching out later to merchant and civic leader.

While a majority in the remote Alpine villages on the slopes of the Karavanke range voted for Yugoslavia, the inhabitants of the densely settled Klagenfurt Basin were motivated by their evolved social and cultural, not least economic ties to the central Carinthian region.

The marriage was not a happy one ; his wife refused to accompany him to the Alpine solitude he desired, and they settled in Fribourg.

The Alpine region area contains many peaks higher than, known as the " four-thousanders ".

The most important mountainous area is an Alpine zone including the Lepontine and Rhaetian Alps, ( Piz Bernina – La Spedla, 4, 020 m ), the Bergamo Alps, the Ortler Alps and the Adamello massif ; it is followed by an Alpine foothills zone Prealpi, which include the main peaks are the Grigna Group ( 2, 410 m ), Resegone ( 1, 875 m ) and Presolana ( 2, 521 m ).

In the area of the great Alpine foothills lakes, however, grow olive trees, cypresses and larches, as well as varieties of subtropical flora such as magnolias, azaleas, acacias, etc.

It is the lowest of the Alpine passes, and one of the few in the area.

The area lends itself to a wide variety of outdoor sports, both winter ( ice hockey, Nordic and Alpine skiing, figure skating, and snowmobiling ) and summer ( trail running, hiking, camping, river and sea kayaking, sailing, windsurfing and road and mountain biking ).

In 2004, the Victorian State Government made the decision that cattle grazing would no longer be permitted in this remaining area of the Alpine National Park.

In the words of Honorary President of the American Alpine Club, Robert H. Bates, this yeti discovery “ has apparently solved the mystery of the yeti, or at least part of it, and in so doing added to the world ’ s great wildlife preserves ” such that the shy animal that lives in trees ( and not the high snows ), and mysteries and myths of the Himalaya that it represents, can continue within a protected area nearly the size of Switzerland.

The few existing historical sources distinguish between two separate Slavic principalities in the Eastern Alpine area: Carantania and Carniola.

In 1991 the Alpine Convention was established to regulate this transnational area, whose area measures about 190, 000 square kilometres.

Within the area delimited by the Alpine Convention, there were about 3. 1 million inhabitants in 1500, 5. 8 in 1800, 8. 5 in 1900 and 13. 9 in 2000.

The branches include Alpine Public Library ( unincorporated area ), Concho Public Library ( unincorporated area ), Greer Memorial Library ( unincorporated area ), Round Valley Public Library ( Eagar ), Sanders Public Library ( unincorporated area ), St. Johns Public Library ( St. Johns ), and Vernon Public Library ( unincorporated area ).

General Nathan Bedford Forrest fought an engagement near Alpine with Federal cavalry resulting in the Federals being thrown back to the Chattanooga area.

Oil was discovered in the Alpine area in 1996.

* Alpine skiing: Charlemont is well known for its alpine ski area, Berkshire East Ski Area.

The Alpine Boat Basin serves as both a public picnic area and small marina for private boats.

Of the fifty some great lodging places within the village and surrounding area, only a few remain: The Regis, Mathes Hotel ( Kosher Plaza ), Alpine, Lorraine, Fleischmanns Hotel ( Roberts ' Auction ), Meinstein Lodge ( Highland Fling Inn ), and the Palace Hotel.

Prior to 1959, Alpine was the largest city in the largest county ( by area ) in the largest state of the Union.

Another important element of Austrian geology and geography is the late Mesozoic Alpine orogeny, and the subsequent formation of the Paratethys ocean and Molasse Basin in the Cretaceous era.

Alpine skiing evolved as a specialization on the general sport of skiing during the late 19th century.

Until the late nineteenth century many Alpine valleys remained mainly shaped by agrarian and pastoral activities.

Legendary lawman and later Texas Rangers Hall of Fame member James B. Gillett served as Sheriff of Brewster County, operated a ranch in Alpine in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

The last Alpine, an A610, rolled off the Dieppe line late in 1994, Renault abandoning the Alpine name.

During the late 1970s Chrysler era, Simca produced the new 160 / 180 saloon, 1307 range ( Chrysler Alpine in the UK ) and later the Horizon ( Dodge Omni and Plymouth Horizon in the USA ), both of which were European Car of the Year on their launch.

During the late stages of the Alpine Orogeny, as the African Plate collided with Eurasian Plate, Mesozoic extensional structures, such as the Weald Basin of southern England underwent structural inversion.

The Minx brand was revived briefly – along with the " Rapier " model name, as applied to the Sunbeam Rapier version of the Audax family – as a special edition late in the life of the Talbot Alpine / Talbot Solara cars, produced by Chrysler Europe after the demise of the Rootes Group.

The Alpine orogeny is considered one of the three major phases of orogeny in Europe that define the geology of that continent, along with the Caledonian orogeny that formed the Old Red Sandstone Continent when the continents Baltica and Laurentia collided in the early Paleozoic, and the Hercynian or Variscan orogeny that formed Pangaea when Gondwana and the Old Red Sandstone Continent collided in the middle to late Paleozoic.

The road was periodically improved and in 1950 the cantonal authorities created a plan whereby the pass could be kept open all through the year, and not closed to traffic between October and late April like most Alpine passes at this altitude.

Fossils of Alpine ibex dating back to the late Pleistocene, when it and the Spanish ibex probably evolved from the extinct Pleistocene species Capra camburgensis.

In the 1st century BC ( late La Tène ), the Swiss plateau was occupied by the Helvetii in the west and by the Vindelici in the east, while the Alpine parts of eastern Switzerland were inhabited by the Raetians.

The Sunbeam was, unlike the larger Horizon and Alpine models which were launched by Chrysler in the mid to late 1970s, never sold in France as a Simca.

Jabouille also raced the 24 Hours of Le Mans from the late 1960s to the early 1990s, driving for Alpine, Matra, Sauber and Peugeot and collecting four 3rd overall finishes in 1973, 1974, 1992 and 1993.

In the late 1960s, About, an employee of Renault Canada's public relations department, was asked to study the feasibility of importing the sporty Renault Alpine into Canada.