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( Sudetes)
The Sudetes (IPA&_160;[su'di?ti?z]) is a mountain range in Central Europe. They are also known as the Sudeten (German [zu'det?n]) or Sudety (Czech ['sudet?]; Polish [su'det?]) Mountains. The Sudetes stretch from eastern Germany to Poland and the Czech Republic. The highest mountain is Snežka-Sniezka in the Krkonoše/Karkonosze Mountains on the Czech-Polish border. They reach up to 1,602 metres in altitude. The current geomorphological unit in the Czech part of the mountain range is Krkonošsko-jesenická soustava ("Krkonoše-Jeseníky"). The Karkonosze/Krkonoše Mountains have experienced growing tourism for winter sports during the past ten years. Its skiing resorts are becoming an alternative to the Alps. The name Sudetes has been derived from Sudeti montes, a Latinization of the name Soudeta ore used in the Geographia of Ptolemy (Book 2, Chapter 10) ca. 150 for the present-day northern Czech mountains. Ptolemy said that they were above the Gabreta Forest, which places them in the Sudetenland. Ptolemy wrote in Greek, in which the name is a neuter plural. Latin mons, however, is a masculine, hence Sudeti. The Latin version is likely to be a scholastic innovation, as it is not attested in classical Latin literature.
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