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Example sentences for: alps

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Before then, despite the peninsula’s obvious geographical unity bounded by the Alps and the Mediterranean, its story is a fragmented tale of independent-minded cities, regions, and islands — and the outside powers who coveted them.
Below the three great lakes, Maggiore, Como, and Garda, the fertile plain of the Po river separates the Alps from the rugged chain of the Apennines, running like a wall down the middle of the peninsula to the arid south.
The merchants of Venice that were the backbone of the Most Serene Republic were only too happy to dessiminate their Oriental cargoes of exotic goods to the dour lives of Lombards in the Po valley and beyond the Alps to the courts of northern Europe.
They took advantage of this new stronghold to create Provincia (now Provence), stretching from the Alps to the Pyrénées, in order to guarantee communications between Italy and Spain.
An estimated 20,000 tourists are currently stranded in snowed-in resort towns throughout the Alps.