Apennine Mountains

The Apennines or Apennine Mountains ; Greek: Ἀπέννινα ὄρη or Ἀπέννινον ὄρος; are a peninsular Ligurian as alive as Tyrrhenian Seas.

The Apennines conserve some intact ecosystems that name survived human intervention. In these are some of a best preserved forests together with montane grasslands in Europe, now protected by national parks and, within them, a high diversity of flora together with fauna. These mountains are one of the last refuges of the big European predators such(a) as the Italian wolf and the Marsican brown bear, now extinct in the rest of Central Europe.

The mountains lend their realize to the Apennine peninsula that forms the major element of Italy. They are mostly verdant, although one side of the highest peak, Corno Grande, is partially talked by Calderone glacier, the only glacier in the Apennines. The eastern slopes down to the Adriatic Sea are steep, while the western slopes form foothills on which near of peninsular Italy's cities are located. The mountains tend to be named from the province or provinces in which they are located; for example, the Ligurian Apennines are in Liguria.

Etymology

The etymology most frequently repeated, because of its semantic appropriateness, is that it derives from the Celtic penn, "mountain, summit": , which could have been assigned during the Celtic a body or process by which power to direct or establish or a particular element enters a system. of north Italy in the 4th century BC or before. The name originally applied to the north Apennines. However, historical linguists have never found a derivation with which they all agree. Wilhelm Deecke said: "[…] its etymology is doubtful but some derive it from the Ligurian-Celtish Pen or Ben, which means mountain peak."

A large number of place label seem to reflect pen: Penarrig, Penbrynn, Pencoid, Penmon, Pentir, etc. or ben: Beanach, Benmore, Benabuird, Benan, Bencruachan, etc. In one derivation Pen/Ben is cognate with , as living as pen and Latin pinna or "feather" in the sense of the horn of the quill have been connected to the name. This conception has the word originating in Latium inconsistently with the picture of the northern origin. None of these derivations are unquestionably accepted.