The island is dominated by two mountain ranges, the Troodos Mountains and the Kyrenia Mountains, and the central plain, the Mesaoria, which is between them.

Troodos ( ()) is the biggest mountain range of Cyprus, located in the center of the island.

The Troodos mountain range stretches across most of the western side of Cyprus.

Almond trees at Troodos mountain

Twenty million years ago Cyprus was actually two islands, which were the predecessors of the Kyrenia and Troodos mountain ranges.

The mountain in earlier times had been known under the name of Olympus, but nowadays the highest point of the Troodos Mountains further to the west bears that name.

Willibrandi de Oldenburg, for example, visited Stavrovouni in 1211 and wrote, " The cross of the Good Thief is on the highest mountain in Cyprus "-which was wrong, as Stavrovouni is not as high as the Troodos peak.

It is not as high as the Troodos Mountains, and it occupies substantially less area.

Limassol is the base for many of the island's wine companies, serving the wine-growing regions on the southern slopes of the Troodos Mountains ( of which the most famous is Commandaria ).

Tethyan ophiolites are characteristic of those that occur in the eastern Mediterranean sea area, e. g., Troodos in Cyprus and in the Middle East such as Semail in Oman, which consist of relatively complete rock series corresponding to the classic ophiolite assemblage and which have been emplaced onto a passive continental margin more or less intact ( Tethys is the name given to the ancient sea that once separated Europe and Africa ).

Troodos ' highest peak is Mount Olympus at 1, 952 metres.

The Mesaoria plain is bounded on the east and west by the Mediterranean Sea, on the south by the Troodos mountains and on the north by the Kyrenia mountains.

As the newcomers knew how to work with copper they soon moved to the so-called copperbelt of the island, that is the foothills of the Troodos mountains.

It is located in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus.

The Troodos Mountains in Cyprus are known for their snowy vistas and has a large number of accommodations from camping sites to 5 star hotels.

The Troodos Mountains cover most of the southern and western portions of the island and account for roughly half its area.

Troodos Mountains provide cooler climate for the city

* Troodos Square-Troodos mountains ; used as a point of reference for meteorological, ( time ) distance and altitude purposes.

This recognition was tied to two events: ( 1 ) the observation of magnetic anomaly stripes on the seafloor, parallel to oceanic ridge systems, interpreted by Frederick Vine and Drummond Matthews to represent the formation of new crust at the oceanic ridge and its subsequent symmetric spreading away from that ridge, and ( 2 ) the observation of a sheeted dike complex within the Troodos ophiolite ( Cyprus ) by Ian Graham Gass and co-workers, which must have formed by repetitive extension of crust and intrusion of magma resulting in a formation consisting of 100 % dikes with no older wall rocks preserved within the complex.

* Troodos Ophiolite in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus, in these case its study has partly been economically motivated as the copper deposits of Cyprus are part of the ophiolite.

Ironically, some of the classic ophiolite occurrences used to relate ophiolites to seafloor spreading ( Troodos in Cyprus, Semail in Oman ) were found to be " SSZ " ophiolites, formed by rapid extension of fore-arc crust during subduction initiation.

The observations of the Troodos ophiolite by Ian Graham Gass and co-workers was one of the key points that led to the theory of sea floor spreading.

A vineyard in the Troodos Mountains.

* Agros, an example of an agrotourism sustained village, on Troodos Mountains in Cyprus.

The A9 connects Nicosia to the west Nicosia district villages and the Troodos mountains.

Moores and Vine concluded that the sheeted dike complex at Troodos could only form by a process similar to the seafloor spreading proposed by Vine and Matthews.

* Gass, I. G. ( 1968 ) Is the Troodos massif of Cyprus a fragment of Mesozoic ocean floor?

* Moores E. M. and F. J. Vine ( 1971 ) The Troodos massif, Cyprus, and other ophiolites as oceanic crust: Evaluation and implications, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 268A, 443-466

Cyprus ( Troodos Mts.

In Cyprus the battalion was successful in Operation Golden Rain, destroying a major EOKA terrorist group operating in the Troodos Mountains in 1956.

Troodos slowly rose from the sea due to the collision of the African and European tectonic plates, a process that eventually formed the island of Cyprus.

Forty miles farther north is Mount Moosilauke, Dartmouth's own mountain.

The only natural World Heritage Sites is the Tassili n ' Ajjer, a mountain range.

The western terrestrial garter snake ( Thamnophis elegans ) in California is largely aquatic and depends heavily on two species of frog that are diminishing in numbers, the Yosemite toad ( Bufo canorus ) and the mountain yellow-legged frog ( Rana muscosa ), putting the snake's future at risk.

The term is often used to refer to activities with some potential for physical danger, such as skydiving, mountain climbing and or participating in extreme sports.

The principal feature of the bathymetry ( bottom topography ) is a submarine mountain range called the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

The group is named after the Altai Mountains, a mountain range in Central Asia.

Access inland from the coast is limited to a few narrow valleys because mountain ridges.

Eastern Anatolia, where the Pontus and Taurus mountain ranges converge, is rugged country with higher elevations, a more severe climate, and greater precipitation than are found on the Anatolian Plateau.

A central massif composed of uplifted blocks and downfolded troughs, covered by recent deposits and giving the appearance of a plateau with rough terrain, is wedged between two folded mountain ranges that converge in the east.

Mont Blanc spans the French – Italian border, and at is the highest mountain in the Alps.

An alp refers to a high mountain pasture where cows are taken to be grazed during the summer months and where hay barns can be found, and the term " the Alps ", referring to the mountains, is a misnomer.

Much of the Alpine culture is unchanged since the medieval period when skills that guaranteed survival in the mountain valleys and in the highest villages became mainstays, leading to strong traditions of carpentry, woodcarving, baking and pastry-making, and cheesemaking.

Haymaking is an important farming activity in mountain villages which has become somewhat mechanized recent years, although the slopes are so steep that usually scythes are necessary to cut the grass.

If one looks at the fields around the Deserted Village and right up the mountain, one can see the tracks in the fields of ' lazy beds ', which is the way crops like potatoes were grown.

The plateau is masked by intermediate mountain ranges and extinct volcanoes.

landlocked in the Lesser Caucasus Mountains ; Sevana Lich ( Lake Sevan ) is the largest lake in this mountain range

The alphorn or alpenhorn or alpine horn is a labrophone, consisting of a wooden natural horn of conical bore, having a wooden cup-shaped mouthpiece, used by mountain dwellers in Switzerland and elsewhere.

On the border of Sweden is a mountain range running from northeast to southwest.

* 1942 – World War II: The flag of Nazi Germany is installed atop the Mount Elbrus, the highest peak of the Caucasus mountain range.

Alberta is landlocked, and separated by a series of mountain ranges from the nearest outlets to the Pacific Ocean, and by the Canadian Shield from ports on the Lakehead or Hudson Bay.

In contrast with other continents, it is marked by the comparatively small area of either very high or very low ground, lands under occupying an unusually small part of the surface ; while not only are the highest elevations inferior to those of Asia or South America, but the area of land over is also quite insignificant, being represented almost entirely by individual peaks and mountain ranges.

It is located in the western part of the Nova Scotia peninsula, formed by a trough between two parallel mountain ranges along the shore of the Bay of Fundy.

A common theme is a mountain which blocked the Sun, but on the right day would allow the tiniest fraction to re-emerge on the other side for a ' double sunset '.

In cases where the density of the air is significantly different from the calibration value ( as on a high mountain, or with an exceptionally low barometer ) an allowance must be made.