The river valley geography in Vogtland's north made it necessary to build comparatively big bridges to channel railroad and automobile traffic streams.

** High Atlas, a mountain range in Morocco, contains the highest point in the Atlas Mountains

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

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.

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

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.

Bimberi Peak being the highest mountain in the ACT approximately south west of Canberra.

An afterglow may appear above the highest clouds in the hour of deepening twilight, or reflected from the high snowfields in mountain regions long after sunset.

The area around Lake Tanganyika is warmer, averaging ; the highest mountain areas are cooler, averaging.

The terrified local Thracians took refuge with their families and animal herds on the slopes of Mons Donuca, the highest mountain in Thrace ( Mt.

The highest elevations of Mount Kinabalu are home to the Kinabalu mountain alpine meadow, an alpine shrubland notable for its numerous endemic species, including many orchids.

Mount Musala () in the Rila mountain in Bulgaria is the highest.

Ben Nevis (, ) is the highest mountain in the British Isles.

The highest point in Chad is Emi Koussi, a mountain that rises in the northern Tibesti Mountains.

The highest mountain in Cambodia -- Phnom Aural, at 1, 771 meters — is in the eastern part of this range.

Based on Dravidian architecture, it was designed as a pyramid representing the structure of the universe: the highest level at the center of the temple represented Mount Meru, the home of the Hindu gods, with the five towers on the highest level representing the five peaks of the mountain.

sometimes referred to as ' the hinge of Africa ;' throughout the country there are areas of thermal springs and indications of current or prior volcanic activity ; Mount Cameroon, the highest mountain in Sub-Saharan west Africa, is an active volcano

The country's highest peaks lie in this mountain range: the Cerro Chirripó and the Cerro Kamuk.

The highest point is Cerro Chirripó, a volcanic mountain with an elevation of ( part of Chirripó National Park ).

It is the smallest of the four islands and has a central mountain chain reaching 860 meters at its highest.

* Mount Charleston, Nevada, the highest mountain in the Spring Mountain Range

Its highest mountain is Diego de Ocampo, close to Santiago, with 1, 249 m. There are several small plains between this range and the Atlantic Ocean.

* The Sierra de Neiba, with Mount Neiba the highest mountain with 2, 279 m. An extension to the southeast of Sierra de Neiba is the Sierra Martín García ( Loma Busú, 1, 350 m ).

Almost all the annual rainfall and the highest humidity occurs during this time, and yearly rain totals, particularly on southern-facing mountain slopes, can be as high as.

It is close to Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in the British Isles, and Glen Nevis.

( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.

The monitoring is the highest and most restrictive of any organization in existence.

At the national and international level, then, what is the highest kind of morality for the private citizen represents an instance of political immorality.

Bertha Szold was more like Meg, the eldest March girl, who `` learned that a woman's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it, not as a queen, but a wise wife and mother ''.

In Plato's mind there is an irresolvable conflict between the poet and the philosopher, because the poet imitates only particular objects and is incapable of rising to the first level of abstraction, much less the highest level of ideal forms.

Since he has just shown who is top dog, he may not be ready to receive this highest honor in the gift of the Soviet people.

Dr. Ray is a Fellow of the Foundation -- appointed thrice to assist his studies of William Makepeace Thackeray and of H. G. Wells -- and, before his appointment to the Foundation's executive staff, had been given our highest scholarly accolade, appointment to the Advisory Board.

A true university, like most successful marriages, is a unity of diversities Without forcing all components into a single pattern, the preparation of a master plan is an opportunity to consider interrelation of knowledge at its highest level, which a university -- in contrast to a multiversity -- should stand for.

The highest position is known as a ' research scientist.

With no set standards, there is the tendency to promote to the next highest level when the top of a salary band is reached regardless of performance.

The highest rated non-supervisory engineering title is ' research engineer.

This is much smaller than the highest resolution of even the very large reflectors now under construction, and consequently the radio emission of different regions of the disk cannot be resolved.

It is hard to believe that this mass of intertwined concrete constitutes what the law calls `` the highest and best use '' of centrally located urban land.

Fearful of inviting a military showdown with the West which they could not win, the Communists seek to undermine Western power where the nuclear might of the West is irrelevant -- in backwoods guerrilla skirmishes, in mob uprisings in the streets, in parliaments, in clandestine meetings of undercover conspirators, at the United Nations, on the propaganda front, at diplomatic conferences -- preferably at the highest level.

Ideally these schools should be so located that one or more should be in the area where demand for practical courses is at the highest.

Today however, the `` outsider '' is likely to have professional qualifications of the highest order ( otherwise the college would not be interested in hiring him ) and to be acclimatized to the democratic processes of the secular or state university.

It is natural that he should turn for his major support to a select and dedicated few from the organization which actually owns the university and whose goals are, in their opinion, identified with its highest good and ( to use that oft-repeated phrase ) ' the attainment of excellence ' ''.

Then, if the middle number is activated to its greatest potential in terms of this square, through multiplying it by the highest number, 9 ( which is the square of the base number ), the result is 45 ; ;