The Alpine regions are multicultural and linguistically diverse.

A cultural definition of Europe as the lands of Latin Christendom coalesced in the 8th century, signifying the new cultural condominium created through the confluence of Germanic traditions and Christian-Latin culture, defined partly in contrast with Byzantium and Islam, and limited to northern Iberia, the British Isles, France, Christianized western Germany, the Alpine regions and northern and central Italy.

Lyon and Savoy supply high quality sausages while the Alpine regions supply their specialty cheeses like Beaufort, Abondance, Reblochon, Tomme and Vacherin.

Alpine climate or highland climate or mountain climate, are found on highlands regions in Nigeria.

But unlike many other Alpine regions, which have been left to be explored by strangers, this region has been long visited by Swiss travellers and men of sciences.

The Alpine regions are subject to environmental protection, which has limited the scope of commercial development of skiiable terrain, however Australia has extensive cross country skiing terrain.

In that period the socio-political structures of Alpine regions drifted apart.

Because of the proliferation of such systems in the Alpine regions of Europe, the French and German language names of téléphérique and Seilbahn, respectively, are often also used in an English language context.

The music of Slovenia is closely related to Austrian and Northern Italian music because of its common history and Alpine and littoral culture, and in some southern regions to Croatian ( especially Istrian ).

He incorporated folk styles from the Alpine regions in his compositions.

Volksmusik ( literally translated from the German as " people's music ") is the common umbrella designation of a number of related styles of traditional music from the Alpine regions of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol ( Italy ).

Because of the proliferation of such systems in the Alpine regions of Europe, the French language name of Télécabine is also used in an English language context.

Alpunk ( Alpine punk ) is a genre of punk rock from the Alpine regions of Germany, Switzerland and Austria.

In The Races of Europe ( 1939 ) Coon classified Caucasoids into racial sub-groups named after regions or archaeological sites such as Brünn, Borreby, Alpine, Ladogan, East Baltic, Neo-Danubian, Lappish, Mediterranean, Atlanto-Mediterranean, Irano-Afghan, Nordic, Hallstatt, Keltic, Tronder, Dinaric, Noric and Armenoid.

The Alpine population has increased and spread into neighbouring regions.

From 1856 to 1861 he was mathematical master at Westminster School, and he pursued geology only as a recreational activity, mainly in Alpine regions.

His attention was specially directed to the study of the igneous and metamorphic rocks in Alpine regions and in various parts of England ( e. g.: the Lizard in Cornwall, at Salcombe and in the Charnwood Forest ), Wales and the Scottish Highlands.

In the Alpine regions, Krampus is represented as a beast-like creature, generally demonic in appearance.

Volkstümliche Musik ( German: Folksy / traditional / popular music ) is a modern variation on the traditional music of German-speaking countries in general and their Alpine regions in particular.

In this perception, it differs somewhat from its ancestor, the original folk music of the Alpine regions ( Volksmusik ), which continues to be performed by many local groups and orchestras in the area.

Antennaria alpina ( Alpine Catsfoot or Alpine Pussytoes ) is a species in genus Antennaria, native to subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere, and extending south at high altitudes in mountains in Scandinavia, and in the Rocky Mountains south to Montana.

Their purpose was to fight summer and winter in the highest regions of the Alpine Arch.

The Alps, one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretch approximately across eight Alpine countries from Austria and Slovenia in the east, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany, France to the west and Italy and Monaco to the south.

Many whitefish species or ecotypes, especially from the Great Lakes and the Alpine lakes of Europe, have gone extinct over the past century or are endangered.

Alpine skiing is popular wherever the combination of snow, mountain slopes, and a sufficient tourist infrastructure can be built up, including parts of Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand, the South American Andes, and East Asia.

The climate of the Alps is the climate, or average weather conditions over a long time, of the exact middle Alpine region of Europe.

Like other parts of Europe, the Alpine region was affected by the formation of the nation states that produced tensions between various groups and had consequences for border areas.

In the nineteenth century, there had been a tension between the romantic advocates of the “ sacredness ” of the Alpine peaks ( such as John Ruskin ), and modern mountain climbers ( such as Leslie Stephen ), who promoted the notion of the Alps as the “ playground of Europe .” In the twentieth century, the mountains acquired a clearly positive, iconic, status as places unsullied by undesirable urban influences such as pollution, noise and so on.

We can see similar geologic evidence in the Alpine orogeny of Europe, where the movement of the African plate raised the Alps.

The Alpine Chough breeds in mountains from Spain eastwards through southern Europe and the Alps across Central Asia and the Himalayas to western China.

The Alpine Chough has an extensive though sometimes fragmented range, estimated at 1 – 10 million square kilometres ( 0. 4 – 3. 8 million sq mi ), and a large population, including an estimated 260, 000 to 620, 000 individuals in Europe.

At the greatest extent of the last glacial period around 18, 000 years ago, southern Europe was characterised by cold open habitats, and the Alpine Chough was found as far as south as southern Italy, well outside its current range.

He was already known as a climber, as a contributor to Peaks, Passes and Glaciers ( 1862 ), and as one of the earliest presidents of the Alpine Club, when in 1871, in commemoration of his own first ascents in the Alps, he published The Playground of Europe, which immediately became a mountaineering classic, drawing – together with Whymper's Scrambles Amongst the Alps – successive generations of its readers to the Alps.

:: Bell-shaped spires: These spires, sometimes square in plan, occur mostly in Northern, Alpine and Eastern Europe, where they occur alternately with onion-shaped domes.

The fossil record from the Pleistocene of Europe includes a form similar to the Alpine Chough, and sometimes categorised as an extinct subspecies of that bird, and a prehistoric form of the Red-billed Chough, P. p. primigenius.

The Alpine Chough breeds above in Europe, in Morocco, and in the Himalayas.

Downhill races: An event most popular in the Alpine countries of Europe, these races are timed events down a steep course.

The formation of the Matterhorn ( and the whole Alpine range ) started with the break-up of the Pangaea continent 200 million years ago into Laurasia ( containing Europe ) and Gondwana ( containing Africa ).

His racial classification (" Teutonic ", " Alpine " and " Mediterranean ") was also used by William Z. Ripley ( 1867 – 1941 ) who, in The Races of Europe ( 1899 ), made a map of Europe according to the cephalic index of its inhabitants.

Alpine Swifts breed in mountains from southern Europe to the Himalaya.

*** Alpine marmot, M. marmota found only in Europe in the Alps, northern Apennines in Italy, Carpathians, Tatras, and reintroduced in the Pyrenees