ADJECTIVE
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on or relating to or characteristic of the region or peoples beyond the Alps from Italy (or north of the Alps)
Cracow was a transalpine university
ancient transalpine Gaul was an area northwest of the Alps and included modern France and Belgium
NOUN
- one living on or coming from the other side of the Alps from Italy
How To Use transalpine In A Sentence
- Local specialities like marinated eel with shallots co-exist with transalpine dishes involving foie gras or oysters.
- The government is negotiating to buy a share in the Transalpine Pipeline, which pumps Azeri oil from the Italian port of Trieste to Germany, in a bid to lower energy dependence on Russia.
- ancient transalpine Gaul was an area northwest of the Alps and included modern France and Belgium
- In Renaissance Diplomacy Garrett Mattingly traces the development of the residential form of diplomacy among the five Italian city-states that eventually made its way into transalpine Europe.
- Switzerland struggled to convince skeptical European neighbors to support its ambitious and costly TransAlpine rail plans in the 1990s.
- Transalpine freight in border-to-border transit shall be carried by rail.
- Cracow was a transalpine university
- These men belonged to a transalpine cultural world.
- Switzerland struggled to convince skeptical European neighbors to support its ambitious and costly TransAlpine rail plans in the 1990s.
- Communications were improved through extensive construction of roads and waterways, most notably the transalpine Simplon Pass, completed in 1805.