Dinaric Alps, the name applied to the mountains connecting the Julian Alps with the Balkan system. The main range stretches from north-west to south-east, separating Dalmatia from Bosnia and Herzegovina, as far as the mouth of the Narenta; and a minor chain extends through the Dalmatian coast country. The mountains are principally calcareous; the highest summits are Orjen (6225) and Dinara (5940), and the mean height is 2300 feet.
Dinaric Alps
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 824
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