The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Location
Alps
Also known as Rhaetian Alps
- mountain_range
The great mountain barrier between Italy and the northern provinces, crossed by military roads and invaded armies. Snowy passes and fortified valleys make it a recurring threshold of the western empire.
- Type
- mountain_range
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 15
- Books
- 1
History
BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)
The great mountain barrier between Italy and the northern provinces, crossed by military roads and invaded armies. Snowy passes and fortified valleys make it a recurring threshold of the western empire.
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