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Ural Mountains   /jˈʊrəl mˈaʊntənz/   Listen
Ural Mountains

noun
1.
A mountain range in western Russia extending from the Arctic to the Caspian Sea; forms part of the traditional boundary between Europe and Asia.  Synonym: Urals.





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"Ural Mountains" Quotes from Famous Books



... how Germany had survived when the scientists of the world had predicted her speedy annihiliation. The original use of protium had, I found, been discovered late in the Twentieth Century when the protium ores of the Ural Mountains were still available to the German chemists. After Russia had been won by the World Armies, the Germans for a time suffered chronic nitrogen starvation, as they depended on the protium derived from what remained of their agriculture and from the fisheries in the Baltic. As the increasing ...
— City of Endless Night • Milo Hastings
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... and the whole of Asia Minor beyond the Taurus range to the North, and the plains from mount Caucasus to the Black Sea to the West, and the plains of the Don this side—that is to say, at the foot of the Ural mountains. And thus the Black Sea must have sunk about 1000 braccia to uncover ...
— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci
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... of the vast plain which extends from the German ocean to the Ural mountains, is occupied by the countries called the Netherlands. This small triangle, enclosed between France, Germany, and the sea, is divided by the modern kingdoms of Belgium and Holland into two nearly equal portions. Our earliest information concerning ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
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Words linked to "Ural Mountains" :   Russian Federation, mountain range, range of mountains, mountain chain, range, chain of mountains, chain, Russia


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