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	Pindus Mountains - MSN Encarta
		Pindus Mountains (Albanian Mal Pino; Greek, Pindos Óros), mountain system, north-western Greece, separating Thessaly from Epirus and extending about 160 km (100 mi) from the border of Albania.
		The Pindus range is as high as 2,546 m (8,352 ft) in the Smolikas.
		Several of the main rivers in the area rise in the Pindus, including the Piniós, the Aoos (in Albania, the Vjosë), the Akheloos, and the Aliákmon.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570678/Pindus_Mountains.html (113 words)

	Pindus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The mountain range stretches from near the Albanian border in northern Greece to the north of the Peloponnese.
		The Pindus range is the southern part of a large arc of mountain ranges spanning southeastwards from the Alps, via the Dinaric Alps, and includes the Šar-Korab massive, Pindus, Parnassos, Chelmos and the rest of Peloponessus, having its southern extreme in Mount Taigetos.
		Because of the instability of the soil on steep mountains, road-building and clear-cutting operations have led to dangerous landslides and the collapse of mountain slopes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pindus (520 words)

	CUCC Journal 1965: Pindus Mountains
		This town, the economic and administrative hub of Epirus, is notable for its picturesque Turkish influence and for its spectacular setting on the shores of a lake beneath the foothills of the Pindus Mountains.
		This is the foothill range of the Pindus, and it is a limestone area consisting of an irregular succession of variously-sized solutional depressions and rounded hills.
		Moraines in the Pindus Mountains lead inevitably to considerations of periglaciation, the effects of which are found all over the region.
	cucc.survex.com /archive/jnl/1965/pindus.htm (2965 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Pindus Mountains mixed forests (PA1217)
		The Pindus Mountain Conifer and mixed broadleaf forests ecoregion extends geographically in a north-south direction from the mountain ranges of the Peloponese (Taiyetos, 2,404 m) to the central Greek Parnasos (Liakoura, 2,457 m; Giona, 2,510 m), Smolikas (2,637 m), and Olympus, (2917 m), to northern Albania and western FYROM (Perister, 2,601 m; Galicica, 2,255 m).
		The dominant canopy tree species of the mountain conifer forests are the Pallas pine (Pinus nigra pallasiana), the endemic Greek fir (Abies cephalonica), and the hybrid Balkan fir (Abies borisii-regis).
		Due to the soil instability of the steep mountain slopes, road construction and clear cutting operations have provoked significant landslides, and the collapse of large mountain slopes.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/pa/pa1217_full.html (1184 words)

	Pindus Mountains - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Pindus Mountains (Albanian Mal Pino; Greek, Pindos Óros), mountain system, north-western Greece, separating Thessaly from Epirus and extending...
		The central mountain area, the Pindus Mountains, extends in a north to south direction and is one of the most rugged, isolated, and sparsely...
		Thessaly (Greek Thessalia), largest region of ancient Greece, a vast plain, separated from Greek Macedonia by the Cambunian Mountains to the north,...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Pindus_Mountains.html (104 words)

	GREEK TRAVEL - HOTELS IN GREECE
		It extends from the peaks of the Pindus mountains to the shores of the Ionian Sea.
		The Pindus range forms its natural north-eastern border, while dozens of other mountains, big and small, are scattered throughout the area, separated by only a few valleys.
		Amidst these superb mountains and forests live the last of the Greek bears, wolves, mountain lions, wild boars and otters.
	www.helsun.gr /Info.asp?regid=19 (339 words)

	Europe Overview
		The Alps are mountain ranges on the northern margins of Mediterranean, Southern, Europe.
		The backbone of the Italian peninsula is the Apennine Mountains.
		The Carpathian Mountains are a range in Slovakia, southwestern Ukraine, and Romania.
	maps.unomaha.edu /Peterson/funda/Notes/Notes_Exam2/EOverview.html (2352 words)

	Epiros, North Greece
		The mountains are covered with snow from November through to May. When the snow melts, the tallest peaks tower over the lush vegetation at lower levels.
		Rivers, at the feet of the tall mountains, carry the waters to the sea through small valleys and narrow gorges.
		Valia Calda is surrounded by mountains, and the river Arkoudorema, the Stream of the Bears, which crosses the little valley.
	greece-private.com /epirus2.htm (1536 words)

	Pindus - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Píndhos, chief mountain range of Greece, extending c.100 mi (160 km) S from the Albanian border through NW Greece.
		The Pindus are a continuation of the Dinaric Alps but have a lower limestone content than the Dinarics.
		The steep western slopes of the Pindus intercept moist westerly winds, causing a rain shadow on the gently sloping eastern side.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-pindus.html (253 words)

	Zagoria
		The villages of the northern mountains of Greece were largely responsible for maintaining the Greek heritage during centuries of foreign occupation.
		It is a paradisaical valley surrounded by the peaks of the Ligkos Mountains and heavily forested with pine and beech trees.
		This trip highlights the Vikos Gorge with turquoise river pools and towering cliffs, stone villages of Zagoria, the deserted monasteries of Agia Paraskevi and Moni Stomiou, the plunging panoramas from the peaks of Gamila and Smokilas and the Dragon Lakes themselves.
	www.great-adventures.com /destinations/greece/zagoria.html (2987 words)

	METSOVO
		Thus Metsovo, because of its position as a central juncture in the interior system of communications and as an absolutely necessary stopping point for taking on supplies and the control of the only pass through the Pindus mountains, must be one of the oldest settlements in the region.
		This is because the conservative character of the mountain dwellers and their unquestioned political autonomy made the suppression of their privileged origins and their historical experiences as a way of life, impossible and disadvantageous.
		The Roman Empire took the form of "armed association" because it was primarily interested in the protection and fortification of the region, which for the Romans was above all an important not to say crucial pass from the southern shores of Epirus to Thessaly and Macedonia.
	www.epcon.gr /metsovo/History.htm (974 words)

	Thessaly and Sporades Islands - View of Greece by Region - Tour Trip Greece
		The entire plain is surrounded by the mountains Pindus, Othrys, Ossa, and Agrafa; among them flows the Pinios river which drains into the Aegean, after passing through the Thessalic Tempi.
		Kalampaka, famed for its Byzantine churches, is built where the river Pinios leaves the Pindus mountains, at the foothills of Meteora.
		Karditsa, the capital of the district of Karditsa, is built on the banks of a tributary of the Pinios river.
	www.tourtripgreece.gr /view_of_greece/region/thessaly.php (706 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Pindus Mountains mixed forests (PA1217)
		In this ecoregion, towering, old growth forests of pines and firs survive at the highest reaches of the mountains, while in the valleys and deep canyons a wide variety of oak trees dominate.
		In the beautiful mountain lakes of the Pindus Mountain Conifer and Broadleaf Mixed Forests ecoregion, large breeding colonies of herons, spoonbills, egrets, and pelicans fish the cool waters.
		Because of the instability of the soil on steep mountains, road building and clear-cutting operations have led to dangerous landslides and the collapse of steep mountain slopes.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/pa/pa1217.html (441 words)

	CRG Newsletter 87 Mar. 1963: Greece Expedition
		Moraines in the Pindus Mountains lead inevitably to considerations of glaciation and periglaciation, the effects of which are found all over the region.
		The height of these pot-holes is about the same as the summit surface of Astraka, and the general accordance of the highest plateau in the Pindus of this area suggests a high-level erosion surface with rather better karstic development than we encountered at lower levels near Konitsa.
		Surface drainage of any type is almost lacking in the Pindus Mountains and a thick layer of scree seals off most joints in the limestone, preventing any concentrated percolation.
	cucc.survex.com /archive/jnl/others/crgn87.htm (2363 words)

	Conquest of the Aegean: Operation Marita - 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Not to be deterred, the young leader (soon to become Alexander the Great) had his soldiers carve steps into the mountain so he could circumvent the defenders and emerge behind them on the plains of Thessaly.
		In 1941, Greek mountains and rivers would not be a deterrent to the Germans either.
		All of these thrusts crossed cold snowy mountains - formidable terrain which, to the shock of the Greeks and British, appeared to be no impediment to the German war machine.
	cota.matrixgames.com /history/marita2.html (1036 words)

	NL20_6: In the Realm
		This little-known, remote, and undeveloped mountainous region toward the northwest of Greece was so inaccessible under Turkish rule that it was excluded from Ottoman tax records, hence its appellation.
		Here, pristine forests and mist-shrouded vales are crossed by hidden paths and gracefully arched Turkish bridges; wolves and bears still prowl; and majestic, unforgiving mountains shield the last of the Vlach and Sarakatsan shepherds who cling almost clandestinely to their ever more fragile premodern way of life.
		He unabashedly celebrates the lives of the transhumant shepherds he befriends as simple, purposeful and complete, and not to be abandoned or sold out for the sophistication, crassness, and anonymity associated with life in the mushrooming mega-cities.
	www.farsarotul.org /nl20_6.htm (1477 words)

	Gatorsports.com :: 100 years of Gator Football
		Its eastern boundary is defined by the Pindus Mountains that form the spine of mainland Greece and separate Epirus from Macedonia and Thessaly.
		It is largely made up of mountainous limestone ridges, part of the Dinaric Alps, that in places reach 2,650 m.
		In the east, the Pindus Mountains that form the spine of mainland Greece separate Epirus from Macedonia and Thessaly.
	www.gatorsports.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?template=wiki&text=Epirus_(region) (1934 words)

	Middle Pleistocene glacier behaviour in the Mediterranean: sedimentological evidence from the Pindus Mountains, Greece ...
		The Pindus glaciers were relatively small by world standards and would have been highly responsive to changes in air temperature and precipitation.
		The mountains of the Mediterranean were extensively glaciated during cold stages of the Pleistocene (Hughes et al.
		Most studies of the Mediterranean mountains have relied on morphological criteria to subdivide glacial successions, and systematic investigations of the glacial sedimentology are rare.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3721/is_200609/ai_n16743028 (965 words)

	Central Greece - Phantis
		The Pindus is extended by the Parnassian Range, which is close to the mainland's southern shore and rises to 2,457 meters at Mt. Parnassus, mythical home of the Muses.
		The main rivers of the region are the Kifisos, which forms an east-west valley as it flows from the southern Pindus into the Gulf of Vorios Euboea west of Khalkis, and the Acheloos, which empties into the Ionian Sea after flowing southward from the mountains of Epirus.
		In the district of Boeotia (Voiotia), between the Gulf of Corinth and Euboea, the Kifisos and the Asopos rivers form two extensive fertile plains where grain, tobacco, grapes, and olives are grown.
	wiki.phantis.com /index.php/Roumeli (337 words)

	Ancient Greece (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Between the ridges of the mountains are narrow valleys.
		The Pindus Mountains are a system of mountains that are northwest of Greece.
		The mountains are a protective barrier for the plain of Thessaly on the East.
	www.karnscity.k12.pa.us /chicora/Civilizationwebsites/Greece/letterp.htm (172 words)

	Gatorsports.com :: 100 years of Gator Football (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The first nucleus of the Romanian schooling in Macedonia and Pindus was to be established in 1860 and its initiators were a group of Aromanians then living in Bucharest: D.D. Cozacovici (native of Metsovo), Zisu Sideri, Iordache Goga (native of Klissoura) and others.
		and the Romanian school in the village of Avdhela in Pindus, which was one of the first Romanian schools, active as early as 1867, was burned and raised to the ground on October 27th 1905 by Greek guerrillas.
		This appears to be the case of the more remote villages of Pindus, where, sheltered somehow from contact with the dominant Greek culture, the older generation of the Vlachs remains faithful to their language and customs.
	www.gatorsports.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?template=wiki&text=Aromanians (4510 words)

	the balkan state's mountains
		Numerous mountains ranges are found in the Balkans including the namesake Balkan Mountains that extend from Yugoslavia across Bulgaria.
		The Rhodope Mountains run across the borders of Bulgaria, Macedonia and northern Greece, and the Pindus Mountains extend from Albania down through central and western Greece.
		The most famous mountain in the area is Mt. Olympus, the highest and most awe-inspiring peak in all of Greece.(see picture) In ancient times it was the mythical home of Zeus, and was declared the first national park in Greece in 1939.
	www.worldatlas.com /aatlas/infopage/balkanmts.htm (247 words)

	Romanian Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The main areas inhabited by these populations are the Pindus Mountains, Meglan, around lake Prespa, and around the mountains of Olympus and Vermion.
		They are seasonally nomadic shepherds, most of the men spending the winters on the plains with the flocks, while their families continue to live in their mountain villages.
		It embraced the southern and central ridges of Pindus, and extended over part of Macedonia, thus including the region in which the Roman settlers mentioned in the Acts of St. Demetrius had fixed their abode.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/romanian/articles/aromani.html (2491 words)

	Greece: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com
		The Greek islands are generally subdivided into two groups, according to location: the Ionian islands (including Corfu, Cephalonia, and Leucas) west of the mainland and the Aegean islands (including Euboea, Samos, Chios, Lesbos, and Crete) to the east and south.
		North-central Greece, Epirus, and western Macedonia are all mountainous.
		The main chain of the Pindus Mountains extends from northwest Greece to the Peloponnese.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107588.html (1202 words)

	Mediterranean Topography
		Westerly (westerly winds) flow through the Strait of Gibraltar and are channeled between the Sierra Nevada Mountains in southern Spain and the Atlas Mountains in Morocco.
		Mistrals (northwest winds) flow into the Mediterranean Sea from the south coast of France and are channeled through the gaps between the Pyrenees Mountains, the Massif Central and the Alps.
		Bora--Aegean Sea (north-northeast winds) flow into the Aegean Sea and are channeled through the Rhodope Mountains, the complex mountainous topography in Turkey and the Pindus Mountains in Greece.
	www.nrlmry.navy.mil /~medex/tutorial/mediterranean/topography.html (194 words)

	Animal Planet :: Bears vs. Villagers
		June 30, 2003 — Brown bears in the mountains of northwestern Greece have been so successful at reproducing under a recent scheme that isolated villagers have begun barricading themselves in for protection.
		Events took a particularly dramatic turn recently in the village of Anilio Metsovou, in the Pindus Mountains near Albania, when an 85-year-old woman was found dead near a sheep pen.
		Mertzanis is proud of the fact that, thanks to efforts by Arctouros and the local authorities to protect the brown bear, "the population has gone from around 80 10 years ago to 160 today" in the Pindus Mountains, the bears' southern-most habitat.
	animal.discovery.com /news/afp/20030630/bears.html (544 words)

	Tourist Guide Epirus: guide ioannina greece, travel metsovo, dodoni festival, hotels epirus, north greece, holidays ...
		Epirus occupies the N.W. corner of the Greek peninsula, to the South of Albania and is the most mountainous region in Greece.
		The skyline of the Pindus range forms the natural eastern boundary of the area, separating it from but also linking it with other sections of the country.
		Beyond the Pindus range lie scores of other large and small mountains, scattered all over the district and leaving only very few plains.
	www.zeus.gr /guide/epirus.html (602 words)

	EN - Library - The added value of LEADER - A collective body to take on the Pindus mountains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		And in the deep interior of the very jagged Pindus mountains, communications are difficult between very scattered pockets of population.
		The creation of Pindos, the prototype of inter-territorial cooperation, arose from the need to give the Pindus a development instrument that could cross administrative borders and meet the specific needs of this mountain environment in the form of coordination, technical assistance and other intangible investments.
		The reason why this was important was because the Pindus is like “the other Greece”, a country threatened with desertification but whose weaknesses can be turned into assets if authenticity and discovery are the focus of attention.
	ec.europa.eu /comm/archives/leader2/rural-en/biblio/valeur/art02bis.htm (935 words)

	Geomorphology: Chapter 2 Plate T-27
		The Plate image shows the Pindus Mountains of central and northwestern Greece (Epirus Mountains in Albania).
		The Pindus zone (high mountains and rough texture) is an allochthonous block separated from the Frontal Folds by a shallow-dipping (30°) thrust fault that extends from northern Albania to the southern Peloponnesus.
		T-27.2 portray allochthonous blocks and imbricate slices as landforms in the Greek Pindus Mountains.
	daac.gsfc.nasa.gov /geomorphology/GEO_2/GEO_PLATE_T-27.shtml (704 words)

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