Questions tagged [alps]
Question related to the history of the Alps, Europe's highest and most extensive mountain range system spanning about 1,200 kilometres (750 mi) across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): France, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, and Slovenia.
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Which Allied forces held the French-Italian border from Operation Dragoon to the end of WWII in Europe?
Since the Germans and their puppet state the Italian Social Republic continued to hold northern Italy almost to the end of the war, it was necessary for the Allies to man the fortifications on the ...
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Group term for the Celts around the Alps?
Usually when I'm trying to find something about the Celts along the Danube and North Italy, I have a hard time. What is their group term (like Gauls, Britons, Celtiberians)? Do they belong to Gaul? ...
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Why have we never found any elephant skeletons in the Western Alps?
It is widely assumed that the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca crossed the Western Alps some 2200 Years ago with an army of men, horses and elephants in direction of Italy and the Roman Republic. ...
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