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The Carpathian Mountains (Hungarian: Kárpátok; Romanian: Mun?ii Carpa?i;
Polish, Czech, and Slovak: Karpaty; Ukrainian: ??????? (Karpaty); German:
Karpaten; Serbian: Karpati / ???????) are the eastern wing of the great
Central Mountain System of Europe, curving 1500 km (~900 miles) along the
borders of Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine, Austria,
Serbia, and northern Hungary.
Name The name 'Karpetes' may ultimately be from the Proto Indo-European
root *sker-/*ker-, from which comes the Albanian word karpë "rock", perhaps
by Dacian cognate which meant 'mountain,' rock, or rugged (cf. Old Norse
harfr "harrow", Middle Low German shcarf "potsherd", Lithuanian kar~pas
"cut, hack, notch", Latvian cěrpt "to shear, clip"). Archaic P
