This is about the terrestrial mountain range. There is also a lunar mountain range named the Montes Apenninus.
The Apennine Mountains (Italian: Appennini) stretch 1000 km from the north to the south of Italy along its east coast, forming the spine of the country. They lend their name to the Apennine peninsula which forms the major part of Italy. The mountains are mostly green and wooded, although one side of the highest peak, Corno Grande (2,912 m), is partially covered by the southernmost glacier in Europe. The eastern slopes down to the Adriatic Sea are steep, while the western slopes form a plain on which most of Italy's historic cities are located.
Historical Significance
In the Italian Campaign of World War II, the Germans used the Apennines as a defensive barrier known to the Allies as the Gothic Line. The Allies attacked the line unsuccessfully in September 1944.
Another line of defence, the Barbara Line, crossed the southern Apennines.
3,510,114) extends from the eastern slopes of the Appenines to the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian seas, and icludes the islands of the Tuscan Archipelago.
The distribution of rainfall is varied, with maximum precipitation in the highlands, especially in the Appenine and Pre-Appenine areas to the north-west (over 2000mm annually in the Apuan Alps), whilst the quantity decreases towards the coast, especially when this is distant from the mountains (600-700mm in Maremma).
Tuscan rivers are irregular in the amount of water they carry, are often torrential in nature and follow tortuous routes because of the need to adapt their course to the fragmentary morphology of the region.
Don Pedro had gone to the king to represent the local underclass in their complaints against the injustices of the governor of Castille but the king, as abusively despotic as the governor, has sided with his governor, dispossessed de Rohilla of his lands, and declared him a traitor.
While he is still in the Appenines with his father, however, the two observe the local peasantry, who are presented in Rousseauian terms as naturally good, not having developed the decadent hypocrisy and ambitions of more "civilized" parts of the Old World.
And Recluse of the Appenines can hardly be said to be feminist in its treatment of its heroine's powers of ratiocination; Luxuna is very simple, which is clearly meant to be part of her charm, both to Ferdinand and, one supposes, to the novel's audience.
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