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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A mountain range of the western Carpathians extending about 320 km (200 mi) along the Polish-Slovak border and rising to 1,725 m (5,659 ft) at Babia Góra. The range is divided into the East Beskids and the West Beskids.
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In a ten days 'battle the victorious troops beat the Russian Third and Eighth Armies to annihilation, and quickly covered the ground from the Dunajec and Beskids to the San River -- 130 kilometers (nearly 81 miles) of territory.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various
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