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	Cottian Alps - MSN Encarta
		Cottian Alps, division of the western Alps on the Franco-Italian border, named after the Gallic chief Cottius.
		Located primarily in southeast France, but partly within northwest Italy, the Cottian Alps extend south from Mont Cenis Pass, at the southern end of the Graian Alps, to Argentière Pass, at the northern end of the Maritime Alps.
		On the Italian slopes of the Cottian Alps, the inhabitants, primarily descended from refugees of the French religious wars, maintain their Protestant religion and old French dialect.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_762508413/Cottian_Alps.html (158 words)

	Alps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The highest mountain in the Alps is Mont Blanc at 4810 meters on the French-Italian border.
		The Eastern Alps are commonly subdivided according to the different geological composition of the more central parts of the Alps and the groups at its northern and southern fringes: Northern Limestone Alps, Central Eastern Alps and Southern Limestone Alps.
		The Northern Limestone Alps are separated from the Central Eastern Alps by the.
	www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Alps (652 words)

	AWS - American Waldensian Society
		Visit Valdese, NC, founded by Waldensian settlers who came from the Cottian Alps of Italy in 1893.
		It chronicles the significant events of the flight of the Waldensians from the Cottian Alps of Italy to the foothills of North Carolina, where they founded Valdese.
		Euan Cameron, The Reformation of the Heretics: The Waldenses of the Alps, 1450-1560.
	www.waldensian.org /aws09.asp (268 words)

	Alps Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The border between the Central Eastern Alps and the Southern Limestone Alps is the so-called Periadriatic Seam.
		The Northern Limestone Alps are separated from the Central Eastern Alps by the Grauwacken Zone.
		The Alps arose as a result of the pressure exerted on sediments of the Tethys Ocean basin as its Mesozoic and early Cenozoic strata were pushed against the stable Eurasian landmass by the northward-moving African landmass.
	www.variedtastes.com /encyclopedia/Alps (1551 words)

	Wikipedia: Alps
		The Alps is the collective name for one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria in the east, Slovenia, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany, through to France in the west.
		The highest mountain in the Alps is the Mont Blanc at 4808 meters on the French-Italian border.
		The Alps are a range of mountains located within the Moon's Mare Imbrium, formed in the impact that created the Imbrium Basin.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/a/al/alps.html (187 words)

	Alps \| Topic Definition \| Find the Meaning and Define the Answer of Alps
		The Western Alps are located west of the line between Lake Constance along the Rhine to Lake Como.
		The border between the Central Alps and the Southern Limestone Alps is the so-called Periadriatic Seam.
		The Northern Limestone Alps are separated from the Central Alps by the Grauwacken Zone.
	www.thefreeencyclopedia.com /definition/word.aspx?w=Alps (604 words)

	Ari's Base Camp - Western Alps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Traverse SW Ridge in ascent, WNW Ridge in descent.
		Cottian Alps are located between Maritime Alps in the south, Dauphiné in the east and Graian Alps in the north.
		Maritime Alps on the southern border between France and Italy (north of the city of Nice and southwest from Turin) are the southernmost mountain range of the Alps.
	ari.rdx.net /abc/mountains/westernalps.htm (8276 words)

	Maritime Alps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Maritime Alps are a mountain range in the south-western part of the Alps.
		The Maritime Alps are drained by the rivers Roya, Var and Verdon and their tributaries on the French side; by the Stura di Demonte and other tributaries of the Tanaro and Po on the Italian side.
		The chief peaks of the Maritime Alps are:
	www.tocatch.info /en/Maritime_Alps.htm (134 words)

	Articles - Alps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Alps is the name for one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east, through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west.
		The highest mountain in the Alps is Mont Blanc at 4810 m on the French-Italian border.
		The border between the Central Eastern Alps and the Southern Limestone Alps is the Periadriatic Seam.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Alps?mySession=845388d3983acd58cf18fd9cde66a2f2 (1178 words)

	Cottian Alps -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		French Alpes Cottiennes, Italian Alpi Cozie, segment of the Western Alps extending along the French-Italian border between Maddalena Pass and the Maritime Alps (south) and Mont Cenis and the Graian Alps (north).
		western spur of the Cottian Alps (q.v.) in southeastern France, lying between the Arc and Isère river valleys (north) and the upper Durance River valley (south).
		Its headwaters are on the slopes of Mount Viso in the Cottian Alps, near the French border.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9026520 (915 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Cottian Alps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Cottian Alps, mountain range, division of the western Alps on the Franco-Italian border, named after the 1st century bc Gallic chief Cottius.
		Structurally, the Alpine mountain system is divided into the Western and Eastern Alps by a furrow that leads from the Rhine Valley in northern...
		Waldenses, members of a Christian sect that grew out of a movement that opposed the ecclesiastical establishment.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Cottian_Alps.html (96 words)

	EZGeography - French Alps
		The French Alps are simply those parts of the Alps which lie in France.
		The specific subranges of the Alps that are at least partly in France include (from south to north):
		Mont Blanc is the highest point of the French Alps (and of the Alps as a whole).
	www.ezgeography.com /encyclopedia/French_Alps (73 words)

	Cottian Alps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Monte Viso in the Cottian Alps, seen from the Rochemelon
		The Maddalena Pass separates them from the Maritime Alps; the Col du Mont Cenis separates them from the Graian Alps; the Col du Galibier separates them from the Dauphiné Alps.
		The Cottian Alps are drained by the rivers Durance and Arc and their tributaries on the French side; by the Dora Riparia and other tributaries of the Po on the Italian side.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cottian_Alps (193 words)

	History in Italy
		Liguria Liguria spreads in an arch from the mouth of Roia to that of the Magra rivers, embracing the south side of the Ligurian Alps and Apennines (separated by Colle di Cadibona) as well as a large part of the Po Valley flanks.
		The first is an alpine zone including the Lepontine and Rhaetian Alps (Piz Bernina, 4 055 m.), the Orobic Alps, the Ortles and Adamello massifs; a pre-alpine zone, its main peaks being the Grigne Group (2,410 m.), Resegone (1,875 m.) and Presolana (2,521 m.).
		The terrain is largely mountainous: the northern area stretches from the Ortles group (3,899 m.) along the Venoste, Breonie and Aurine Alps to the Vedrette di Ries (3,435 m.).
	www.ciaodarling.com /italy/history.htm (1382 words)

	The Waldenses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In the Cottian Alps, the rugged country of Piedmont, the home of the Vaudois, lying between Turin on the east and Grenoble on the west.
		The Cottian Alps alone have been witness to a body of Christians who for eighteen centuries have professed one and the same unvarying theological system.
		By the opening of the fourteenth century so many had settled in the Cottian Alps, as a refuge from persecution, that the advisability of sending out colonies was discussed, and parties were dispatched to Calabria and other districts of Italy.
	www.edwardtbabinski.us /sheldon/waldenses.html (2034 words)

	Peaks and passes of the Alps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Alps form a great mountain range, consisting of a main chain, with ramifications, and of several parallel minor chains.
		They thus form a single connected whole as contrasted with the plains at their base, and nature has made no breaks therein, save at the spots where they sink to comparatively low depressions or passes.
		Our selected divisions relate only to the High Alps between the Col de Tenda and the route over the Radstadter Tauern, while in each of the 18 subdivisions the less elevated outlying peaks are regarded as appendages of the higher group within the topographical limits of which they rise.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/P/Peaks-and-passes-of-the-Alps.htm (329 words)

	Northern Italy - Turin And Susa
		The Taurin were a tribe of Kelts from beyond the Alps who came to settle in the upper valley of the Po at the base of the Cottian Alps.
		At the left end of this radius, as we face the Alps, was the territory of the tribe of the Vagienni, reaching to the Maritime Alps and the Riviera.
		Worse yet, military communications with Gaul and Germany were insecure except in case of a large force, and depended on the friendship of local chieftains, such as that of Donnus, King of the Cottian Alps, whose friendship for Julius Caesar had made the pas-sage to Gaul across the Mont Genèvre possible.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles27n/roman-cities-24.shtml (2536 words)

	The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Cottian Alps@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Part of the main chain of the Alps, lying on the borders of France and Italy.
		The Cottian Alps extend from the Graian Alps on the north to the Maritime Alps on the south, and form a division of the western Alps, distinct from the Dauphin Alps to the west.
		There are some 20 passes or cols, among which is the pass of Montgenvre, between the Cottian and Graian Alps, connecting the river valleys of the Dora Riparia in...
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:100128132&... (181 words)

	Po River article - Po River Po (disambiguation) Italy Cottian Alps Adriatic Venice river - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Po River article - Po River Po (disambiguation) Italy Cottian Alps Adriatic Venice river - What-Means.com
		Po River flows 652 kilometers from west to east across northern Italy, from Mount Monviso (in the Cottian Alps) to the Adriatic Sea near Venice.
		It has a drainage area of 71,000 square kilometers.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Po (214 words)

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		They were also guilty of violence, as in Austria the murder of priests and monks, and in the Cottian Alps of an official of the Inquisition (1374), amore frequently took bloody revenge upon renegade masters and friends who had turned spies and informers for the Inquisition.
		The Romance Waldenses after the Reformation: After Apr., 1523, Guillaume Farel (q.v.) la, bored for the Protestant cause for a time at Gap in Dauphiny, and though he was soon expelled, the agitation begun by him quickly reached the Waldenses of the Cottian Alps.
		In the Cottian Alps the Protestant faction prevailed without serious antagonism, but in Provence the old-school Waldenses did more than protest, for late in 1532 or early in 1533 the two "barbs," Daniel de Valence and Jean de Molines, went to Bohemia for help.
	www.ccel.org /s/schaff/encyc/encyc12/htm/old1/0273=249.htm.old (917 words)

	COTTIAN ALPS NATURAL HISTORY HOLIDAY
		The limestone of the Cottian Alps changes abruptly to the acidic rocks of the Queyras a few miles to the west of high passes where we’ll encounter a rich tapestry of alpine wonders.
		There’s Gentians and Primulas, Lilies and Pinks, alpine Buttercups both white and yellow, delicate Snowbells, gorgeous King of the Alps, and the lovely ‘Vanilla Orchid’ Nigritella corneliana.
		Up to three or four miles a day and always at a slow pace, perfectly suited to flower and butterfly photographers.
	www.greentours.co.uk /holidays/COTTIANALPS.asp (402 words)

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		In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the Waldenses of the Cottian Alps had a regular
		This commentary was probably prepared in the Cottian Alps or in Provence toward the end of the fifteenth century, as also the
		In the Cottian Alps, on the other hand, as well as in
	www.ccel.org /s/schaff/encyc/encyc12/htm/old1/0271=247.htm.old (882 words)

	The History of Protestantism - Volume Second - Book Sixteenth - Protestantism in the Waldensian Valleys
		The old and dying stock in the Alps, drinking of the celestial stream, lived anew; its boughs began to be covered with blossoms and fruit as of old.
		The confessors of the Alps thought that they were alone in the world; every successive century saw their numbers thinning, and their spirit growing less resolute; their ancient enemy, on the other hand, was steadfastly widening her dominion and strengthening her sway.
		If the Church of the Alps was to continue apart, as before the Reformation, she felt that she must justify her position by proving the existence of great and substantial differences in doctrine between herself and the newly-arisen Church.
	www.giveshare.org /churchhistory/protestantismwylie/v2b16.html (17860 words)

	Alps Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Maritime Alps - Cottian Alps - Dauphine Alps - Graian Alps - Pennine Alps - most of the Swiss AlpsSwiss Alps, including North-Eastern Swiss Alps - Bernese Oberland - Lepontine Alps - Tödi Range -
		* Switzerland; highest peak: Piz Bernina - (Bernina Alps).
		Many writers take the growth of cerealgrain as the characteristic of the mountain region; but so many varieties of all the common species are in cultivation, and these have such different climatal requirements, that they do not afford a factory criterion.
	www.echostatic.com /Alps.html (609 words)

	Alps : Alp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The highest mountain in the Alps is the Mont Blanc at 4807 meters on the French-Italian border.
		Bernese Oberland - Lepontine Alps - Todi Range - Swiss Alps - Bernina Alps - Albula Range - Silvretta and Rhatikon Ranges
		Her dire envenomed teeth have there ta'en root.
	www.freetemplate.ws /al/alp.html (530 words)

	Bollettino della Soc. entomol. ital., Genova, 135(1), 2003
		The results suggest a change in food preference between different instars, with smaller stages detritivorous and larger ones carnivorous, feeding on a broad range of aquatic insects.
		orsiera, a new subspecies of Leuctra from the Cottian Alps, Italy
		This subspecies inhabits the northern part of the Cottian Alps, between the Chisone and Susa valleys.
	www.socentomit.it /english/boll_mem/boll16.html (571 words)

	Alps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Eastern Alps are commonly subdivided into the Northern Limestone Alps, the Central Eastern Alps and the Southern Limestone Alps, with reflects the different geological composition of the more central parts of the Alps and the groups at its fringe.
		Bregenzerwald (26) (on groups 13-26 also see The Alps of Bavaria, the Vorarlberg, and Salzburg)
		Southern Carnic Alps (7) (on 1-7 also see South-Eastern Alps)
	www.yotor.com /wiki/en/al/Alps.htm (649 words)

	spinal.ca - Cottian Alps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
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	Cottian Alps
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		Other Ranges: To go to pages for other ranges click on range names in the hierarchy snapshot below, which show the parent, siblings, and children of the Cottian Alps.
		List may not be complete, since only summits in the PBC Database are included.
	www.peakbagger.com /range.aspx?rid=3302 (61 words)

	The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Po@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Longest river in Italy, flowing from the Cottian Alps to the Adriatic Sea; length 668 km/415 mi.
		Its valley is fertile and contains natural gas.
		It rises at over 1,830 m/6,000 ft in the Cottian Alps on the French border, 25 km/15 mi west of...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:100167416&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (166 words)

	Nature Photo Index - Trip Reports
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		Monviso (3841 m) is the highest peak in the Cottian Alps
		It is a superb isolated pyramid, surrounded by fine scenery.
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