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Rhipaei Montes

Rhipaei Montes

Extracted from the Wikipedia article Riphean Mountains.

Greeks initially used the term Hyperborei Montes to denote a mythical mountain range in the far north, associated with the legendary land of Hyperborea, but later ancient geographers applied it to actual mountain ranges, including the Caucasus, the Ural Mountains and the Rhipaei Montes.