The chief mountains include the Black Forest on the west, the Swabian Alb or Rauhe Alb stretching across the middle of the area from south-west to north-east, and the Adelegg mountains in the extreme south-east, adjoining the Allgäu Alps in Bavaria.

Relict tracts of this once-continuous forest exist with many local names: the Schwarzwald (" Black Forest "), Odenwald, Spessart Rhön, Thüringerwald ( Thuringian Forest ), Harz, Rauhe Alb, Steigerwald, Fichtelgebirge, Erzgebirge, Riesengebirge, the Bohemian Forest, and the forested Carpathians .< ref > Walter Woodburn Hyde noted these designations in, " The Curious Animals of the Hercynian Forest " The Classical Journal 13. 4 ( January 1918: 231-245 ) p. 231.

* Felicity Rash, 1996: " Rauhe Männer-Zarte Frauen: Linguistic and Stylistic Aspects of Gender Stereotyping in German Advertising Texts 1949-1959 " in The Web Journal of Modern Language Linguistics, Issue 1, 1996.

Alb, Alp ( m ), plural Alpe has the meaning of " incubus " ( Old High German alp, plural * alpî or * elpî ).

Over the course of the years further estates were added to the family ’ s possessions, such as Schloss Greifenstein and Schloss Burggrub in Heiligenstadt near Bamberg, the Lautlingen castle near Ebingen on the southern slopes of the Schwäbische Alb, Ristissen some twenty kilometers south of Ulm and the Straßberg and Wildentierberg estates in Lautlingen near Albstadt.

To the south of the Swabian Alb the plateau of Upper Swabia stretches to Lake Constance and eastwards across the Iller into Bavaria.

Between the Alb and the Black Forest in the north-west lie the fertile terraces of Lower Swabia, which continue north-eastwards into Franconia.

The word Alb functions as a proper noun referring more or less exclusively to the Swabian and the Franconian Jura () areas however, and as such has no direct translation into most other languages.

It is perhaps for this reason that Schwaebische Alb has sometimes been translated into English as ' Swabian Alps ', thus avoiding the rather formal and obscure geological name Jura.

It enters the Altmühl Valley Nature Park, which is famous for its natural beauty: The meanders of the Altmühl River have cut deep gorges into the mountains of the Frankish Alb.

Situated in the vicinity of two major trade routes between the Lake of Constance and Ulm and the Swabian Alb and the valley of the river Iller respectively, Laupheim developed into a major settlement.

The Alb River arises in the hills of the Black Forest and flows through Ettlingen before emptying into the Rhine at Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, making Ettlingen a central feature of the Albtal, the Alb Valley.

It lies at the foot of the Swabian Alb ( plateau ).

The district is situated on both banks of the Main River in the hills of the Frankish Alb ( Fränkische Alb ).

Johannes Stöffler was born on 10 December 1452, in Justingen near Blaubeuren on the Swabian Alb.

Essingen currently has about 6000 residents, and is located on the northern end of the Swabian Alb.

Lichtenstein Castle is situated on a cliff located near Honau in the Swabian Alb, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

In terms of differential forms, any holomorphic 1-form on V is a pullback of an invariant 1-form on the Albanese, coming from the holomorphic cotangent space of Alb ( V ) at its identity element.

Aldingen lies at the foot of the Swabian Alb on the Prim River.

They named their estates after Hohenzollern Castle at the Swabian Alb ; its capital was Hechingen.

The Red Main rises in the very south in the hills of the Frankish Alb, the White Main has its source in the Fichtelgebirge mountains in the east.

The district is located in the eastern part of the Swabian Alb ( Schwäbische Alb ), hence its name which translates to Eastern Alb District.

Crișana ( Hungarian: Körösvidék ; ) is a geographical and historical region divided today between Romania and Hungary, named after the Criș ( Körös ) River and its three tributaries: the Crișul Alb, Crișul Negru, and Crișul Repede.

It is spoken in Swabia, a region which covers much of Germany's southwestern state Baden-Württemberg, including its capital Stuttgart, as well as the rural area known as the Swabian Alb, and parts of far western Bavaria.

Bopfingen is famous for its landmark Ipf, a table mountain which is part of the neighboring Schwäbische Alb to the east.

A three-holed flute, 18. 7 cm long, made from a mammoth tusk ( from the Geißenklösterle cave, near Ulm, in the southern German Swabian Alb and dated to 30, 000 to 37, 000 years ago ) was discovered in 2004, and two flutes made from swan bones excavated a decade earlier ( from the same cave in Germany, dated to circa 36, 000 years ago ) are among the oldest known musical instruments.

The district is located in the southern part of the Frankish Alb.

* Baar ( region ), a region in southern Germany, between the Black Forest and the Swabian Alb

It is situated in the district of Heidenheim, north-east of Ulm, at the southern foot of the Swabian Alb.

In the north one can see the Hornisgrinde ; in the north-east there's the entire range of the Swabian Alb including the Lemberg mountain, up to the left there's the Hegau volcano region.

In clear weather there are scenic views of the Hohenzollern (" Zollernblick ") and past the Stuttgart TV Tower up to a rugged view of the Swabian Alb.

Except for the Danube in the south, the city is surrounded by forests and hills which rise to altitudes of over, some of them part of the Swabian Alb.

Sigmaringen lies in the Danube valley, surrounded by wooded hills in the south of the Swabian Alb around 40 km away from the Lake of Constance.

The crater is located at the northeastern end of the Swabian Alb near the much larger ( 24 km diameter ) Nördlinger Ries crater and was most probably formed simultaneously with it by the oblique, ENE directed impact of a double asteroid.

Langensteinbach, Spielberg and Ittersbach are all connected to each other and to the cities of Karlsruhe and Ettlingen among others by the Busenbach – Ittersbach branch of the Alb Valley Railway ( Albtalbahn ), an electric railway that forms part of the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn.

Ibrahim Rugova initially advocated non-violent resistance, but later opposition took the form of separatist agitation by opposition political groups and armed action from 1996 by the Kosovo Liberation Army ( KLA ; Alb.

Today, it is not uncommon to find the Alb worn by many mainline Protestant clergy during services.

North of the Danube banks the hills of the Swabian Alb rise.

Much of the Swabian Alb consists of gentle to moderate hills often covered with forest or cleared for small-scale agriculture.

The landscape of the county are the hills of the Swabian Alb, with the Danube as the main river.

East of the river the country is rising to the hills of the northern Frankish Alb.

East of the river the land rises to the hills of the Frankish Alb.

The district includes the eastern metropolitan area of Nuremberg in the west and the hills of the Frankish Alb in the east.

Its source is in the Swabian Alb hills near Wiesensteig.