The Făgăraș
mountain
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group is a subgroup of mountains in the
Southern Carpathians
The Southern Carpathians (also known as the Transylvanian Alps; ro, Carpații Meridionali ; hu, Déli-Kárpátok) are a group of mountain ranges located in southern Romania. They cover the part of the Carpathian Mountains located between the ...
. It is named after the highest of the mountains in the group, the
Făgăraș Mountains.
Boundaries
The Făgăraș group is bounded:
*in the west, by the
Olt River
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*in the east, by the
Rucăr-Bran Passage and the river
Dâmbovița
Mountains
*
Făgăraș Mountains (''Munții Făgărașului'')
*
Iezer Mountains (''Munții Iezer''; literally:''Mountains of the Deep Lake'')
*
Cozia Mountains (''Munții Cozia'')
See also
*
Carpathian Mountains
*
Parâng Mountains group
*
Bucegi Mountains
External links
Pictures and images from the Fagaras Mountains group
*http://www.carpati.org/
*http://www.alpinet.org/
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Mountain ranges of Romania
Mountain ranges of the Southern Carpathians