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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A range in the Balkan Peninsula of southeast Europe extending southeast from southwest Bulgaria to northeast Greece and rising to 2,925 m (9,595 ft). In Roman times the range marked the boundary between Thrace and Macedonia.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mountain range in the Balkan peninsula in southeastern Europe; extends along the border between Greece and Bulgaria
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Another possibility is the Odrysians, a people of southeastern Thrace, located between the Aegean Sea and the Rhodope Mountains.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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Shiroka Luka is located along a picturesque river valley in the Rhodope Mountains.
Kukeri Wil Dalton 2009
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Another possibility is the Odrysians, a people of southeastern Thrace, located between the Aegean Sea and the Rhodope Mountains.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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Shiroka Luka is located along a picturesque river valley in the Rhodope Mountains.
Archive 2009-04-01 Wil Dalton 2009
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Dr. Raphael Valko and his wife Seraphina Valko orchestrated a campaign to excavate the body of a fallen angel from a cave in the Rhodope Mountains in 1943.
Living With Music: A Playlist by Danielle Trussoni - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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Another possibility is the Odrysians, a people of southeastern Thrace, located between the Aegean Sea and the Rhodope Mountains.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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Another possibility is the Odrysians, a people of southeastern Thrace, located between the Aegean Sea and the Rhodope Mountains.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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Dr. Raphael Valko and his wife Seraphina Valko orchestrated a campaign to excavate the body of a fallen angel from a cave in the Rhodope Mountains in 1943.
Living With Music: A Playlist by Danielle Trussoni - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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The Rhodope Mountains were known to the ancient Thracians but to Bulgarians the mountains are famous for having sheltered and been the base for historic freedom fighters.
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The ecoregion does not include the upland vegetation of the Rhodope Mountains (Rhodope montane mixed forests ecoregion) or the sub-Mediterranean and meso-supra-Mediterranean downy oak forests and meso - to thermo-Mediterranean pine forests to the south of the Rhodopes (part of the Aegean & West Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forest ecoregion).
Balkan mixed forests 2007
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