Grampians

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  1. 1
    The Grampian Mountains, a mountain range in the Scottish Highlands. plural, plural-only
  2. 2
    A region in western Victoria, Australia. plural, plural-only
  3. 3
    A locality in the Shire of Southern Grampians, south western Victoria, Australia. plural, plural-only

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"The movement spread from spot to spot, involving every town on the surface of Europe, and in less than a hundred years free cities had been called into existence on the coasts of the Mediterranean, the North Sea, the Baltic, the Atlantic Ocean, down to the fjords of Scandinavia; at the feet of the Apennines, the Alps, the Black Forest, the Grampians, and the Carpathians; in the plains of Russia, Hungary, France and Spain."

Etymology

Antiquarian revival of Latin Graupius, with the modern spelling resulting from a 15th-century mapmaker's misprinting of u as m. Unknown exact etymology. Breeze (2002) argues that this represents a corrupt form of Proto-Brythonic *krib, from Proto-Celtic *krīkʷā (“trench, furrow, boundary”).

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Northern GrampiansSouthern Grampiansmountain range

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